Baron Vaughn Quotes

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

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Knowing ourselves and how we feel can help us improve.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

But I don't let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can't pretend they aren't there.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

I know there must be something I should explore about that with my therapist.

If you're having a bad day the main thing on the mental side is realizing that I'm having a bad day and thinking about why and then just kind of re-prioritizing and saying, "I'm going to let myself have this bad day, but tomorrow I'm going to get back on track." That's pretty much it. We all have them. You do have to let yourself have them and then go within and figure out why you're having it and prevent it from happening again.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.