Seal Quotes

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better. That doesn't mean just the absence of mental illness. It's the presence of positive emotions that allows us to be resilient in the face of adversity.

Tension happens. It will continue to happen. If we didn't have tension, we wouldn't be alive. How we maintenance ourselves makes all the difference in how we live our lives.

I have been able to balance work and my personal life, and with the presence of a partner, I am stronger and better prepared to face the ups and downs.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

Donʹt worry now about what you canʹt change. Rest when you can so youʹll be ready for tomorrowʹs battles

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.