Phil Anselmo Quotes

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

With time, you learn to be calmer.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

I don't torture myself.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I try to focus on the stuff that I can control and let go of the other stuff.

I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse than this.'

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.