- “Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “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
- “Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.” ― Dan Howell
- If you are depressed and anxious, the main thing I want to tell you is: your pain makes sense. It has meaning. You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are a human being with unmet needs. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re crazy or broken. You deserve love and practical support. Johann Hari
- “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
- “For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.” ― Longus (Longos), Daphnis and Chloe : The Love Romances of Parthenius and other fragments
- “I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which – given that I’m emerging from dark times – can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and with a way of viewing things that is different to before.” ― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life – Fennel’s Journal – No. 1
- Facebook is virtual prison which keeps dead relationships alive forever. Thibaut
- Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. Osho
- “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
- The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety. Johann Hari
- One of the best things that helps depression is work, and socialising with other people and connecting. Because when you work you find purpose. Trevor Noah (The Daily Show)
- With the right help, we can understand these problems and we can fix these problems together. But to do that, the very first step is we have to stop insulting these signals by saying they’re a sign of weakness, or madness or purely biological, except for a tiny number of people. Johann Hari
- “The most incredible architectureIs the architecture of Self,which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breatheyou are adding to your lifeand every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life.Every breathe is a re-birth.” ― Allan Rufus, The Master’s Sacred Knowledge
- Why are depression and anxiety on the rise? Because modern society is designed to make you anxious and depressed. Garbage food, sedentary lifestyle, cubicle work, social media, toxic politics, hookup culture, loss of religion, decline of family, drugs, consumerism. Zuby
- “I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
- “Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. …those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “When Sherri asks questions about who would find me if I killed myself and what their reaction would be, I think that whoever knew me would be sad. But then everybody would get over it. I would fade away. I don’t think I’m that important to anyone. Nobody’s opinion about me killing myself would stop me from doing it.” ― Albert Borris, Crash Into Me
- “Faith is never connected to safe. There is no faith without tension. For a rubber band to function to it’s elasticity, it has to experience a tension. Saints of God who has no tension has no function.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Not easy to state the change you made.If I’m alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
- “There comes a time when something changes you… No matter the impact… Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life.” ― Solange nicole
- “You don’t seem mad at all,’ she said.But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?” ― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
- “Sometimes when you experience something wonderful, everything else loses its shine.” ― M.E. Vaughan, The Sons of Thestian
- “Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don’t know a single person who doesn’t know at least two of these victims personally.” ― P!nk
- Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t. Halley Cornell
- 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. J.K. Rowling
- “Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakenly created for themselves. […] It is a plague – especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour of one kind or another. They’re all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.” ― Tim Lott, Scent of Dried Roses
- “Fixing problems is like breaking a pencil. It’s very hard to break many pencils at one time; however, if you try breaking one at a time it’s very easy to do.” ― James Thomas Kesterson Jr