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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.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
People with depression have something very valuable to teach us… how to live when it doesn’t ever feel good.
People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.
A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it’s hard to smile.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.
I feel like I’m one of the happiest people I know.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.
Until you’ve had depression I don’t think you’re qualified to talk about it.
When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.
I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.
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.
