Top 1200 Overcoming Depression Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Kids in the entertainment industry are at a risk of developing depression, as they see glamour at an early age.

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

I feel like every project that I've been doing, I've learned something about myself. It's like I've cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider. I'm just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

I guess I get a little impatient and frustrated when people ask what 'Manic Depression' is about.

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

I'm naturally a very happy person, but I've had times with depression and have got through it with therapy.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of the corps concept of overcoming fear, I felt Simon was a great character to explore, while getting a different viewpoint on things.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

I was raised by my Depression-era grandma who taught me to use what you've got: Waste not, want not!

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find.

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

You get into depression when you are sitting at home and have no work, especially after being at the top of your game.

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.

Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.