Frank Iero Quotes

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

I'm trying to be the most vibrant version of myself.

I, as Chrissy, want to do things that mentally, emotionally and physically make me the best that I can be.

You thrive in your career when you thrive with yourself.

Forget good for you - art should be good to you.

There were things that had been weighing heavy on me for quite some time. And I went into this hole, trying to work through some of these things so that I could be a better me and be a better mom to Julez and be a better wife and a better friend and a better sister.

I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days.

A mid life crisis is nothing but getting to the point where you go, have I done what I wanted to do? Am I living the life that I want to live? Am I appreciating what I have? If you don't get to that point developmentally, you're not doing it correctly. The people who get to that age and haven't reassessed usually haven't faced the fact that that's where they are.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It's that resource within each of us which allows us to reach ever closer to our full potential, and which also enables us to be resilient in the face of adversity.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

I kind of lose my mind a little bit if I'm not making something.