Best anxiety & depression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

Source: Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living

“Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.”

“When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside”

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”

“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 that are blooming outside our windows today.”

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”

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Author:Dan Millman

“Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.”

“There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.”

Ifs Want Writing Stills Moving Sides Depression Anxiety Anxious

Author:David St. John

“A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.”

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Book:Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.”

“Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of happiness are greater if one has multiple areas of interest and involvement. To juggle is to diminish the risk of depression, anxiety, and unhappiness.”

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!”

“Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.”

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Author:Dustin Hoffman

“..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.”

Children Jobs Depression Anxiety Grades Spouse Good Job Get Ahead Good Grades

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Effective communication is the backbone for productivity in all settings...especially in healthcare. Lives depend on this simple act”

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Book:Tips for Effective Communication: A vital tool for Trust Development in Healthcare

Source: Tips for Effective Communication: A vital tool for Trust Development in Healthcare

“You look how I feel,” she whispered, her throat tight. “Every day.”

Love Depression Anxiety Heartbreak

Book:House of Earth and Blood

Source: House of Earth and Blood

“If you're feeling depressed or anxious, throw away your phone, get out of the room, and lie down on your back under the open sky. Not on a mat. Disappear in grass, collapse on stone or shatter in soil. Withdraw from the human circus and merge back with the universe.”

Life Pain Worry Psychology Depression Anxiety Heartbreak

Author:Shunya

“love was never enough to be a protection, it keeps away no devil or evil”

Love Family Marriage Depression Anxiety Heartbreak Tradition Reality By Sumaiya Ahmed

Book:Reality

Source: Reality

“I’m still here. The doubt, the fear, the heartbreak, the depression, the anxiety, the insecurity: It didn’t win. The people who hurt me and let me down: They didn’t win. The disappointment and the failure, and the hopes and deferred dreams: Nope. They didn’t win either.”

Depression Anxiety Heartbreak Insecurity Survivor You Are Enough Mandy Hale

Book:You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole

Source: You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole

“Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I write letters to you that you’ll never see.”

“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.”

“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.”

“I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.”

“You haunt my days and dreams.”

“The Fall will always be yours and mine…”

“Time' is the most threatening four letter word.”

“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.”

“That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.”

“I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?”

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.”

“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.”

“Mary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending that he’s involved. He wants it to snow so he won’t have to go outside. He is afraid of what might happen. But it occurs to her that what he must really be afraid of is women. Then Mary Lou feels so sick and heavy with her power over him that she wants to cry. She sees the way her husband is standing there in a frozen pose. Mack looks as though he could stand there all night with the telephone receiver against his ear.”

Depression Anxiety Girls

Book:Shiloh and Other Stories

Source: Shiloh and Other Stories

“Wanting makes the mind restless.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I came unglued and went back together the wrong way and fell apart again.”

Feelings Fear Emotion Depression Anxiety Stress Mental Health Fall Apart Rabbit Robot

Author:Andrew Smith

“Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.”

Emotion Depression Anxiety

Book:The Two Towers

Source: The Two Towers

“Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.”

Emotion Depression Anxiety

Book:Lectures to My Students

Source: Lectures to My Students

“His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.”

Emotion Worry Depression Anxiety

Author:Victor Hugo

“In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar – one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.”

Community Emotion Depression Anxiety Resilience Accountability Discipleship Counseling

Book:Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

Source: Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back

“She really just thought people were better off staying away from her.”

Life Reality Truth Honesty Depression Anxiety

Book:Carve the Mark

Source: Carve the Mark

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