Every cancer is different. The symptoms and treatments are different, and every human body deals with it differently. There are no formulas to it. That, I think, was the biggest takeaway for me.
One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.
A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.
If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.
What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
It's just like I'm an athlete, I'm a human being. I have personal issues going on.
Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.
I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and learn how to get over the bad outings and learn from them, so they don't occur time and time again. You take what you did right from the good games and turn those into, 'How do I repeat that success?'
I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.
Consider anything, only don’t cry!
As any human does, I have my happy times and sad times.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
I'm always in trouble.
Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
