Mentors Quotes

“Greatness looks like madness until it finds its context.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“By being open to suggestion, by letting go of my will in favour of the will of others, I begin to change. You can't think your way into acting differently, but you can act your way into thinking differently.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“This spiritual life, in the end it is not a choice, it’s what’s left when you run out of choices.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“Generally educational bodies do not exist to bring out your innate brilliance but to monger your wayward nature into a unit of manageable energy that will not be too disruptive to the social systems that benefit the powerful.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“I come from there, there where I never belonged.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“Addicts are not enslaved by drugs, drugs serve as an escape from the false ideals of a materialistic society.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“That you can never base a relationship on the hope that the other person will some day change. You are in a relationship with the person as they are today. If they want to change themselves then that's encouraging but you will never change them.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“Because I have a program of recovery I recognize that I must when in crisis:
1. Acknowledge it.
2. Believe it could improve.
3. Ask for help.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“I have been raised an individualist; the recipe: doting mother, absent father, no siblings, highly alert, low self-esteem – an off-the-shelf cake mix for narcissists, dictators, kooks and crooks.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“You can’t think your way into acting differently, but you can act your way into thinking differently.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“Intention and attention, they say. Where your attention goes, so shall you become. As you intend to be, so shall you be.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“you said that I should not look at the people of the world as resources there to serve me but at myself as someone who can help others. To accept that everything won’t go my way all the time and when I am disappointed to talk through those feelings before acting on them.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“The world of politics is so corrupt that it automatically weeds out the well-intentioned, and anyone sincere will be subjected to pestilent mud-slinging”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“Perhaps if we spend time around positive people, being positive to one another, we can raise our common frequency as well as our individual wellbeing.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“How do you not succumb to base emotions?’ I asked him. He said: ‘When I feel jealous or prideful it reminds me that I need to move closer to God.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“I am not dealing with the total of this man. Is one ever dealing with a total person?”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“If a conservative is a mugged liberal, a dad is a knackered Jesus.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“I must’ve told her of my plan to cope with the pain of divorce by having sex with lots of people because she said, ‘What does it mean then, all this meditation, this program, this faith in God, if as soon as there is a problem in your life you turn to sex?’ Well, what it means is that the meditation, program and faith in God are all phoney, hollow practices, phatic chants and empty dances that I carry out when the going is good, basically just for their aesthetic value. But when pain comes, and pain is always coming, I will abruptly turn, like a good little soldier, to a materialistic solution to a spiritual problem. It means that my true religion is materialism, my true god is the ego, and what I really mean when I say ‘I want to be enlightened’ is ‘I want to feel nice’.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped