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“John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.”

Book:John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

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“When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes you on a downwards spiral, while the other upwards. One breeds toxic patterns, the other awareness. The choice is yours.”

Mind Emotion Healing Mindfulness Emotions Self Awareness Proof

Author:Vironika Tugaleva

“Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.”

Philosophy

Author:Emil Cioran

“One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.”

Love Emotion First Love

Book:A Creature Was Stirring

Source: A Creature Was Stirring

“Fulfilment does not mean our difficult emotions disappear; it means we change our relationship with them.”

Emotion Relationship Fulfilment

Book:The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

Source: The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.”

Religion Emotion Anxiety Legalism

Author:Matt Chandler

“It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.”

Emotion Objectivity Relativism

Author:Matt Chandler

“Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.”

Emotion Perspective Exaggeration

Book:The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

“Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.”

Emotion Compassion Perspective Empathy Despondency

Author:Richard Brookhiser

“Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.”

Reading Emotion Creativity Depression

Book:Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

“The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.”

Emotion Discipleship Evangelism

Book:Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

Source: Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

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