Tim Ferriss Quotes

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments."

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.