Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't think I have any huge neurosis, but I have questions for which I seek if not answers at least a guidance toward the answers.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control: at least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot.

How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper."

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.