Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.
If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.
Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!
You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want. . . . . If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.
It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
Tom's [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.
I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.
Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.