Allen Klein Quotes

Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. But it's really designed to focus on yourself, or it can be. So it's good to have something else to focus on that reminds you that it's not always about you.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

A lot of people want to go out there, help people, and save the world. Sadly, half the time they can't even help themselves.

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I need to worry about the things that I am in control of.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.