"Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie."

-- Steven C. Hayes

#Pain Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Suicidal Quotes

“I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.”
“I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.”
“A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.”
“I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.”
“When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.”
“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”
“Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.”
“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.”

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