“Depression doesn’t just steal the depressed person’s capacity for joy. It throws its mantle over everything he has ever done and everything he could ever do. The depressed person dies not to save himself from the world but to save the world from himself. In this case the word depression makes clear…”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Wordplay, Unable To Continue
“At the center of vulnerability, we find shame, fear, grief, anxiety, uncertainty, scarcity, but this also the birthplace of love belong and joy.”— Brené Brown, Herself, Brené Brown, imdb.comTagged: Shame, vulnerability, Grief, Anxiety, Love
“Mental illness is fluid. It’s ever-changing, and there’s no definite solution. It’s different for everyone. No one is ever ‘cured’ of it. It will always be there.”— Catherine Santino, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Mental Health, Fluid, cure
“We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.”— Marianne Williamson, amazon.comTagged: craziness, Paranoia, Anxiety, Love, Hallucinating
“Thoughts are like drops of water filling an enormous pot. The pot is your life. Do you want your life filled with negative thoughts or healthy thoughts? It happens one ‘drop’ at a time. Patience is the key.”— Lawrence Wallace, amazon.comTagged: Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety
“Depression is hating yourself for feeling like you’re unable to grow up.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Depression, depression's definition
“Anxiety is procrastination because you’re paralyzed with fear of failing so you hold it off.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety, Mental Health Awareness
“It's a bad day, not a bad life. You will get through this. I'm here to help you do just that. I love you.”— Brandi L., recovery.orgTagged: How To Help Someone With Depression, Suicide Prevention, Sucide, Suicidal, Love
“If you are mentally ill and someone is making fun of mental illness, please remember it is their ignorance and not a reflection on you.”— Nikita Gill, twitter.comTagged: Mental Illness, Mental Health
“How can it be that, linked to such suffering, her face is still the face of happiness for me?”— Albert Camus, amazon.comTagged: Adoration, Happiness
“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Growing Up, Happiness
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.comTagged: Depression, beauty, literary, mysterious
“YouTuber and mental health advocate Joey Kidney is starting important conversations around self-care, depression, and anxiety. This is what he has to say.”— Joey Kidney, collective.worldTagged: Joey Kidney, Influencer, Youtube, Depression, Anxiety
“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.”— Nina LaCour, amazon.comTagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, heavy
“You deserve love. You deserve a beautiful life. Don’t listen to your anxiety when it tells you you don’t.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, deserving, H4D-37
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Success
“Anxiety is feeling completely at fault when prioritizing yourself. It is the undeserving feeling of guilt you get when you treat yourself.”— Adam Benedict Tan, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, Guilt, Regrets
“In loving my happiness as well as sadness, my excitement as well as boredom, I discover that I am not my emotions, but the lover of my emotions.”— Abundantlee, amazon.comTagged: Love, Happiness, emotions
“This life. This night. Your story. Your pain. Your hope. It matters. All of it matters.”— Jamie Tworkowski, twloha.comTagged: Pain, Depression, Suicide Prevention, Suicide Notes
“Depression is when you don’t really care about anything. Anxiety is when you care too much, and over think everything, having both is hell.”— Soft Grung, twitter.comTagged: Anxiety, Depression, Negative Feelings
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness a…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.comTagged: Negativity, present, Anxiety, tension, Stress
“We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Sadness, Happiness, Pain
“Love is strange. It’s an acute kind of loneliness, isn’t it? That constant yearning for the other person. That hunger. I didn’t think it was possible but there it was. It’s not pleasure but pain.”— Candy Gourlay, amazon.comTagged: love quotes, Perception of Love, Relationship, Desire, Pleasure
“I hope you know I pray for your happiness like I pray for my own.”— Unknown, facebook.comTagged: Happiness, Love, Relationships
“When your happiness is someone else’s happiness, that is love.”— Lana Del Rey, goodreads.comTagged: Happiness, Love
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Life, Suffering
“Psychopaths have little aptitude for experiencing the emotional responses – fear and anxiety – that are the mainsprings of conscience.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.comTagged: Without Conscience, Lacking Empathy, Psychopaths, Psychopathy, Predatory Behavior
“The big tip-off that you may be suffering with anxiety is when your sleepless nights start to cause daytime tiredness.”— Jane Aniston, amazon.comTagged: Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety
“Haunting’ oversimplifies the complete travesty that depression wreaks in almost every aspect of your life. Depression isn’t ‘difficult to ignore,’ holy shit, no: depression makes it difficult to think about anything else. Depression becomes you.”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Depression, Identitiy
“People who suffer from depression often get frustrated with feeling like they’re a burden on other people.”— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Depression, Quote of the Moment