How can you hide from what never goes away?

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

The oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become the oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop

Moving on is not forgetting - moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.