- “The typical image of a depressed, lazy and tired person is someone hunched over and inert. Often, the assumption is that if one had more enthusiasm and inspiration, he would then stand up straight and move. In many cases, this equation is backward. But, as with everything related to one’s physicality, balance is the key. An overly erect and rigid posture may convey confidence and power to some, but it also causes a subtle accumulation of tension and rigidity on various levels, including psychological and emotional.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “In weariness, existence is like the reminder of a commitment to exist, with all the seriousness and harshness of an irrevocable contract. One has to do something, one has to aspire after and undertake […] In weariness we want to escape existence itself, and not only one of its landscapes in a longing for more beautiful skies. An evasion without an itinerary and without an end, it is not trying to come ashore somewhere.” ― Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents
- “Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn’t mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don’t understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I’m not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that knowing what I’ve lost…” ― Joss Whedon
- “I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.” ― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Not all storms come to disturb your life. Some come to clear your path. Unknown
- “I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.” ― Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
- “The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find yourself; you just have to let yourself in.” ― D. Antoinette Foy
- “If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “The non-disclosure of emotional pain can be deeply traumatic. It leads to depression. In such situations of vulnerability, one must choose to speak to a person you trust. Someone who could care for you and heal you.” ― Avijeet Das
- “A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “The kid was swell. He was walking in the street, instead of on the sidewalk, but right next to the curb. He was making out like he was walking a very straight line, the way kids do, and the whole time he kept singing and humming. I got up closer so I could hear what he was singing. He was singing that song, ‘If a body catch a body coming through the rye.’ He had a pretty little voice, too. He was just singing for the hell of it, you could tell. The cars zoomed by, brakes screeched all over the place, his parents paid no attention to him, and he kept on walking next to the curb and singing ‘If a body catch a body coming through the rye.’ It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed any more.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in. Alan Watts
- “She was the most beautiful treasure I have ever seen; hidden in the depth of the ocean, waiting for someone to pull her out.” ― Giovannie de Sadeleer
- Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present. Paulo Coelho (Hippie)
- Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it. Paulo Coelho (Hippie)
- You can’t control what happens to you but you can control how you react and the direction you’ll take. Maxime Lagacé
- “Wisdom cannot be bought from the walmart, it can only come from the Holy Spirit of God.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?” ― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- “I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “Life makes us suffer at times if we cruise through such moments and look forward to the light the day brings, that darkness that has crippled our mind can be fought and it can be defeated.” ― Radhika Mundra
- “Blind minds are worst than blind eyes. That you have eyes does not mean that you have vision. Visionaries do not look they see whlie people look.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “There’s supposed to be more value in your life than spending more than sixty hours in a week in a place you don’t care about and in an environment they don’t care about you.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- How to help people struggling with their mental health: Learn about mental health, go to visit them, give practical support, ask other people to help, listen to them, give them a hug, celebrate their small steps. Mental Health Notes
- “You’re only as good as your next thought of yourself.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “There were little girls who would snuggle up to any grown man and try to guide his hand inside their underwear, and there were kids who compulsively bit their own arms. Kids who would suddenly start twitching and banging their heads against a wall, not even stopping when the blood ran down their faces. Kids who waddled around oblivious to the stinking load in their own pants. Watching children like this, it was all too easy to see why their parents beat them. It was only natural to hate such kids, to ignore them and shower only your other children with love. Who wouldn’t? But of course that wasn’t the way it really worked. Such behaviors weren’t the reasons parents abused children, but the results of abuse. Children are powerless. No matter how viciously they’re beaten, children were powerless to do anything about it. Even if Mother hit them with a shoehorn or the hose of a vacuum cleaner or the handle of a kitchen knife, or strangled them or poured boiling water on them, they couldn’t escape her; they couldn’t even truly despise her. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease. Kindness, gentleness – anything along those lines just caused tension, since there was no telling when it would turn to overt hostility.” ― Ryū Murakami
- “Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding behind money or a simple smile. We are all continuously stumbling as we go about our lives. If we had perfect lives we’d all be perfect people. Only thing we can learn to do is endure or we will not be happy and happiness is the closest thing to perfect.” ― Hyrum Yeakley
- “Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.” ― One tree hill haley james scott
- There’s always a solution. Noah Kagan
- “Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.” ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
- Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them – if you want to. J.D. Salinger