Nimm deine Gefühle an: Sie arbeiten nicht gegen, sondern für dich. Sie weisen dich darauf hin, dass ein Bedürfnis verletzt wurde (z.B. Ärger über ungerecht Behandlung) oder dass etwas für dich Bedeutung hat (z.B. Trauer über eine verlorene Freundschaft).

Fokussiere auf das Positive: Was ist heute gut gelaufen? Was habe ich schon alles erreicht? Was kann ich gut? Was an unserer Beziehung ist schön?

Folge deiner Freude: Unternimm Dinge, die dich glücklich machen. Wähle einen Beruf, der dir Freude bereitet. Mach Aktivitäten, die du schon als Kind gerne gemacht hast.

Hol dir Hilfe: Wenn du nicht weiterweißt. Wenn du nicht mehr kannst. Wenn du den Weg nicht allein gehen willst. Es ist ein Zeichen von Stärke, Unterstützung zu holen!

Hinterfrage negative Gedanken: "Bin ich wirklich so ein Totalausfall?" "Haben die wirklich über mich gelacht?" Welche andere Erklärung ist möglich? Welche Gegenbeweise habe ich? Was würden andere darüber denken? ProTipp: Denke den Gedanken in einer anderen Sprache!

Lebe deine Stärken: Suche dir ein Umfeld und eine Tätigkeit, in der du deine Stärken zum Einsatz bringen kannst (und nicht ständig versuchst deine Makel zu kaschieren). Wir blühen auf, wenn wir tun können, was uns liegt und worin wir wirklich gut sind.

Genieße häufiger: Und zwar nicht nur nach getaner Arbeit. Genuss verschafft unmittelbar positive Gefühle: Im Vorfeld (= Vorfreude), währenddessen und im Nachhinein (= Schwelgen in positiven Erinnerungen).

Sei gut zu dir selbst: Immer. Besonders bei Misserfolgen. Besonders in Krisen. Besonders, wenn du ein geringes Selbstwertgefühl hast. Aber eigentlich im Grunde einfach IMMER! Du bist ein Freund, kein Feind. Vergiss das nie.

Sorge für Ausgleich: Auf Anspannung sollte Entspannung folgen. Meditation, Malen, Singen, Spielen, Spazierengehen, Sportmachen, Träumen und Gärtnern sind alles wunderbare Wege, um Stresshormone abzubauen und neue Energie zu tanken.

Komm ins Hier und Jetzt: Denn hier findet das eigentliche Leben statt. Und das ist erstaunlicherweise auch der Zeitpunkt, in dem wir die wenigsten Probleme haben (weil die vergangenen Probleme schon hinter uns liegen und die meisten Sorgen eh nie eintreten).

Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.

Triple tongued is triple named.

We need to take things personally. We need to stop putting profits above people. We need to stop putting greed above need. We need to stop putting the rule of gold above the golden rule. We need to treat people as people and not as problems.

Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.

The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

Movies are movies, television is television.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.

Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind.

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

Growing apart doesnt change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side our roots will always be tangled. Im glad for that.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.