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Depression QUOTES

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* I think people are genuinely seeking spirituality. There's a simple reason for this. In the midst of the daily grind of life, it's easy to forget we have a spirit, and we can get depressed, even sick. We are spirits as well as bodies, and spirits need nourishment.
-- Bill Ayres

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
-- Mary J. Blige

“You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head,
but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair”
-- Chinese Proverb

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.
-- Judy Collins

“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

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass.
-- Chuck T. Falcon

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.
-- Bob Geldof

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience
-- Bob Geldof

Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
-- Jesse Jackson

"Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed."
-- Gerald Jampolsky

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
-- Jackie Kennedy

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
No man is free who cannot control himself.
-- Pythagoras

Sadness is a natural reaction to awakening to see the way things are. But we can either become depressed and lost in our sadness, or decide to use this awakening to inspire us
to work to change things to the way we wish they could be.

-- Robert Alan Silverstein

 

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
-- Jeanette Winterson

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