No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

While each of us … has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

It’s good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.

America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. … I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don’t get it.

The depths of the Depression. You didn’t ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn’t ask about stock options, or – you said yes

People don’t just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

To perceive is to suffer.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.