All Quotes By Tag: Depression
“If you are sitting in the dark (due to depression) go turn the light on. If you can’t find the light switch, seek the help of someone who can.”
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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia”
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“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.”
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“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”
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“There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel.”
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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“In my experience, stress is the cause of all injury and pain.”
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“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.”
“I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.”
“I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.”
“I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people’s business, and God’s business.”
“Being depressed means you are trying to see a colorful world through gray filtered eyes”
“My sanity felt like it was hanging over a pit, dangling on a frayed string that I knew was going to break – it was only a matter of when.”
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“As a child of God, please recognize that God is the strength of your life. Not your husband, children, job, friends, loved ones, or well-wishers. God should be the strength of your life, the source of your joy.”
“Do you know what hurts so very much? It’s love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.’I did not know, as I listened to my father’s footsteps winding back down the stairs, that he had given me more than the key to this hard moment. I did not know that he had put in my had the secret that would open far darker rooms that this–places where there was not, on a human level, anything to love at all.”
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