Vicky Kaushal Quotes

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

You cannot escape anxiety … but I have faith that you will rise above your fears.

I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.

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.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.