George Orwell Quotes

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 have some anger issues.

I struggle with control.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

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.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.

I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

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.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.