Mike Murdock Quotes

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

I'm going to have my moody times.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

Maybe there is something wrong with me as I don't feel any pressure or fear.

Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

I have some anger issues.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.