Montel Williams Quotes

It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.

Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it; I pray about it or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it and get it off of me and move on.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

I live each day full of gratitude, and that's good for my children.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day.

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.