Quotes about depression
depression god spiritual
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II
depression way beats
In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring. Pink
depression garden rocks
That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden Peter McWilliams
depression thinking people
There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.
depression purpose enthusiasm
Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.
depression character trying
..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.
depression taken successful
The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.
depression jobs children
..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.
depression acceptance self
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. Nathaniel Branden
depression being-yourself men
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Nathaniel Hawthorne
depression light giving
It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves. Mother Teresa
depression night light
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
depression inspirational-running role-models
A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high. Molly Ringwald
depression average television
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
depression believe worry
I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe. Shelby Foote
depression depressing consistency
My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. Lee Krasner
depression thinking might
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
depression hate suffering
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer. Kate Millett
depression perfect giving-light
Ring the bells that still can ring. Leonard Cohen
depression depressing psychics
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
depression philosophy angel
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. John Keats
depression tragedy panic
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. John Kenneth Galbraith
depression mind function
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it. Lisa Alther
depression war decision
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents. Linda Grant
depression night men
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space. Peter Kreeft
depression fear men
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
depression men worry
No man is free who cannot control himself.
depression hurt cheer
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. Joyce Meyer
depression men insane
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society? Joseph Heller
depression thinking people
I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you? Julian Fellowes
depression suicide meditation
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. Judy Collins
depression exercise years
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
depression recovery miracle
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Patty Duke