Depression Quotes and Quotations To Help You Recover

Depression Quotes and Quotations To Help You Recover

In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind—in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved. No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away—and a touch of wonder remains.
"These Small Candles" ...tombstone inscription in Britain

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Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others.
Albert Einstein
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
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You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
Dan Millman
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliott
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
Kahlil Gibran
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
Walt Disney
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One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys.
Dr. Al Lorin
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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
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If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
Gene Tunney
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
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It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
Brian Tracy
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This place will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Theodore Roosevelt

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
Arnold Bennett
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Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.
Hubert Hoover
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall.
Confucius
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You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power, and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may make use of it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.
Napoleon Hill
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished; if you are alive...it isn't.
Richard Bach
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So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible.So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Unknown
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better.
Charlie Brown
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum
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Don't go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
Paramhansa Yogananda
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The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson