Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.