Depression quotes

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

"If you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right." Henry Ford

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Overcoming depression quotes

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong


"Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them." Earl Nightingale


"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all." Michelangelo


"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." Lao-tzu


"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." Lao-tzu


"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe


"Willpower is the art of replacing one habit for another." Michael Garofalo


"The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person." Norman Vincent Peale


Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi

Overcoming depression quotes to help better your life

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.” Jalal ad-Din Rumi


"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein


"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hopeat all." Dale Carnegie


"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it." Albert Ellis

Overcoming depression quotes

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” Napoleon Hill


"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” Napoleon Hill


"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression." Dodie Smith


"You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you." Dan Millman


"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." Helen Keller


"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison


"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


“I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.” Nicolas Cage

Overcome depression with quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." Mahatma Gandhi


"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." Mahatma Gandhi


"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." Mahatma Gandhi


"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." Mahatma Gandhi


"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." Mahatma Gandhi


"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared." Mahatma Gandhi

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