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“If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.”

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Author:Judy Collins

“He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.”

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Author:Stephen King

“... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.”

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Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.”

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Book:Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

Source: Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

“A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened so quickly and took me by surprise; sometimes I just turned around and found it there-ah, camarade-unaware it had been waiting for me for days.”

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Book:All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo

Source: All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo