Top 1200 Overcoming Depression Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

When I was 19 years old, I quit football completely. For about a month, I stayed at home in a depression. This was in the summer of 2008.

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have tapped into a legitimate anger about the failures of Washington, but instead of running a campaign built on a positive vision for overcoming these failures, Donald Trump has conducted a polarizing and divisive campaign.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human beings that can feed all of our souls. We have our differences, but we're all so similar in our humanness. So those stories about young girls overcoming meant a lot to me and gave me hope.

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Today's generation has tremendous pressure to perform well at work. And if one can't match up to expectations then it can lead to depression.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so that those who might be affected by any changes see them as useful and beneficial for them. This isn't as hard as it sounds. You just have to be vigilant in paying attention to how you're influencing the lives of people who matter.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.