Quotes about overcoming depression and life?
February 17th, 2010 | 
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meg qυеѕtіοnеd:
I want a tattoo thаt hаѕ a quote saying something аbουt overcoming depression bυt іn a suddle way. thanks!
I want a tattoo thаt hаѕ a quote saying something аbουt overcoming depression bυt іn a suddle way. thanks!
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umm idk about a quote…but you can use clever descriptions…like perhaps a flower…budding and notch up into sunlight..or sumthing symbolizing sumthing coming out into the light from darkness in an ironic way. hope i helped!
“Pain is weakness leaving the body”
Excellent Luck!
“Rise higher than it”(idk lol)
I have completely drew a blank! lol maybe one of these will help
Here you can read my answer on someone who needed help on depression and then you can possibly make up a quote from it.
The person chose my answer as best answer since it helped her.
Here it is;
First off the root of depression is thinking about only ones situations such as “Why don’t I get this?” or “Why don’t I get that?” When only thinking about oneself it turns into a dark and lonely world. The situation with depression is all in the mind and it can be solved surrounded by the mind.
Okay now I want you to question yourself these questions;
- Imagine the state of mind when in depression – everything is black, hopeless, cold – try to really feel it in the heart.
- What am I so concerned about?
- Are there thoughts that keep on repeating themselves in my mind?
- Am I only concerned about myself, my own problems and pain?
- Am I realistic about my own situation?
- Am I really helpless, hopeless, hungry, completely alone, poor and cold?
- How many public in the world are really helpless, hopeless, hungry, alone and cold?
- Try to feel some compassion for their suffering.
Please realize that there are public in this world who have to go dirty water, eat only 1 meal a day possibly only rice for the whole family, children who get abandoned by their parents and get left off in the streets, children who get beaten by their drunk parents on an occasion, women who have to do prostitution to earn a living, women who get ***** and then get left off with a baby with no child support, public who lose their families since they live in war zones and then later lose themselves.
You will keep on being depressed until you stop thinking about your own small non life threatening situations. Life threatening situations are the ones that I have named. Once you have bunged thinking about only yourself then finally will you feel free of darkness and loneliness.
LIFE
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to place off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming further than our windows today.”
–Dale Carnegie
USEFUL QUALITIES FOR RECOVERY
“Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is nearly a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan, ‘Press on,’ has solved and always will decipher the problems of the human race.”
–Calvin Coolidge
“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”
– Nathaniel Brand
“Thankfulness unlocks the extensiveness of life. It turns what we have into sufficient, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a weirder into a friend. Thankfulness makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and makes a vision for tomorrow.”
— Melody Beattie
DEPRESSION
“When someone sorrows, I do not say, “not remember it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” — all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to reckon. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Reckon of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.”
–Peter Koestenbaum
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand business.”
–Agatha Christie
“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth”
– Philip Larkin
POSITIVE THINKING
“The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”
– Dan Millman
“If you never change your mind, why have one?”
– Edward De Bono
POSITIVE ATTITUDE
“It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Small things ordinarily: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind-in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved.
No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away-and a touch of wonder remains.”
– “These Small Candles” …tombstone inscription in Britain
“Even if the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
– Helen Keller
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
–George Eliott
“Now and then it’s excellent to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be pleased.”
–Guillaume Apollinaire
The BIGGER PICTURE
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best business in the world for you.”
–Walt Disney
“One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys.”
— Dr. Al Lorin
TAKING ACTION
“Take the first step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed.”
– Ken Roberts
“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
–Sophia Loren
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
–Thomas Edison
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Learn.”
–Mark Twain