“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.comTagged: Love, True Love, Happiness, essential
“Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.”— Adam Silvera, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Happiness, Growing Up
“What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's a really simple rule, they're either scared or in pain.”— Sebastian Junger, youtube.comTagged: Donald Trump, Why people are such dicks, Pain, Human Nature, Mental Health
“Depression is strength. Depression is someone who fights back. Depression is someone who does not stay down. Depression is someone who knows how to bring light to every situation that may seem dark. Depression is getting up every single day and simply trying again.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Depression, strength, fighter
“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”— William Styron, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Suicide, anguish
“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Depression, help, Friendship, Healing
“Just because someone lives with anxiety, it doesn’t mean that their anxiety defines them.”— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety Disorder, Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety
“During this period of my life I was also plagued with bouts of severe depression. When this feeling came over me, I would hide under my bed for hours. I would also lock myself in a closet and sit in total darkness from morning until afternoon. I had a craving for the darkness and I felt an urge to f…”— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.orgTagged: Serial Killers, Son of Sam, Depression, Darkness
“"Anxiety? Well, what could be giving you anxiety, sweetie?" "Um, let's see..."”— Peter Gaffney, Peter Elwell, Daria Morgendorffer, Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.comTagged: Anxiety, Life, sarcastic
“Anxiety makes you freeze and overthink every single thing that happens to you. It creates this crippling feeling that comes over your body while you sit there in silence wondering what went wrong.”— Carly Riegler, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, Overthinking, Fear
“Untreated mental illness can lead to devastating consequences, including suicide, substance abuse, and long-term medical issues. We can do better. Every one of us can make a difference. By getting educated on this epidemic and its frightening statistics and by breaking the stigma.”— Demi Lovato, bustle.comTagged: Mental Illness, Depression, Facing Mental Illness, Battling Mental Illness, Finding Strength
“One of the scariest things in life is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you is...yourself.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.comTagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness
“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Anxiety, emotions, Loneliness, Mortality
“Not talking about mental health issues means that the toxic stigma that is still out there will continue to keep people from asking for help, from getting the treatment they need and from helping people to understand that a mental illness is a chronic disease, like any other chronic disease. You are…”— Glenn Close, buzzfeed.comTagged: Mental Health Awareness, Depression Awareness
“I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness…”— Mary Shelley, amazon.comTagged: Misery, Despair, Depression, Bitterness, Loathing
“i am sorry i can’t fast-forward my sadness.”— Andrea Mena, vagabondcitylit.comTagged: Depression, BPD
“Depression is guilt. . .Depression is desperately trying to explain what’s going on in your mind when you don’t even really understand it yourself.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Depression, Depression Awareness
“Loneliness and misery, the difference is only one memory”— Kim Jonghyun, Kim Taeyeon, open.spotify.comTagged: Depression, Sadness, Loneliness, Misery
“Beauty increases happiness. Happiness improves outlook.”— Karen Struck, Lloyd Gilyard, Jr., Dr. Isabel Barnes, Marsha Thomason, imdb.comTagged: beauty, increases, Happiness, outlook, Chain Reaction
“Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for it's consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But Michael, you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Feelings
“I’ve found that a lot of non-pill treatments work for my depression. In the spring and summer months I can obstruct my anxiety and depression with exercise, weed, going out with friends, and ample time spent in the sun. The endorphins are good. But during the winter, these options diminish or disapp…”— Dayna Evans, gawker.comTagged: Seasonal Depression
“It [anxiety] was the feeling all the time like that feeling you have if you're walking and you slip or trip and the ground is rushing up at you, but instead of lasting half a second, the way that does, it lasted for six months.”— Andrew Solomon, ted.comTagged: Depression, Anxiety, Afraid, Life
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”— Brené Brown, amazon.comTagged: Authenticity, Clarity, Happiness, Belonging, Shame
“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Love, Happiness, romance
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”— Baruch Spinoza, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Unhappiness, Love
“We are all in charge of our own happiness. Life does not happen to us, it happens for us!”— Rachel Brathen, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Life, Appreciate Life
“Remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.comTagged: Depression, Alone, Spilled Ink, strength, Spoken Word
“The better you can learn to tolerate the discomfort of anxiety and recognize it as temporary, the less it will disrupt your life.”— Robert Duff, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety