Josslyn Hay Quotes & Sayings

We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside. — Elizabeth Lesser

He knew he was driving me crazy. — Priya Kanaparti

It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement with black tar oozing through your veins and mind. This is when you can't decide whether to get a manicure or jump off a cliff. It's all the same. When I was institutionalised I sat on a chair unable to move for three months, frozen in fear. To take a shower was inconceivable. What made it tolerable was while I was inside, I found my tribe - my people. They understood and unlike those who don't suffer, never get bored of you asking if it will ever go away? They can talk medication all hours, day and night; heaven to my ears. — Ruby Wax

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America. — Beto O'Rourke

I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom. — C. G. Jung

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. — Robert M. Gates

All the stories are true — Cassandra Clare

Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection. — Debasish Mridha

I felt that I had entered one of the most creative periods of my life. But it was neither balanced nor sustainable, and I sensed that I was quickly approaching a crossroads in my life. — Elle Luna

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. — Adam Smith

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to. — Marina Abramovic

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. — Virginia Woolf