#depression

"Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis."

"Your personal truth is your gift to the world."

"Our love will blend together like turquoise is blue and green. There’s no depression or envy when both blur into one."

"When someone is suffering from anxieties, depression, and stress, the only treatment is to change awareness and consciousness."

"Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair."

"Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org"

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."

"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."

"The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet."

"He: What’s the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her."

"Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic."

"I’ll never speak to God again."

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

"I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose."

"I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason."

"I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong."

"Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine."

"I will be stronger than my sadness."

"As a rule of thumb, hitchhiking is no fun. If you’re going to stand around waiting to move, you may as well get paid to hold a pawnshop sign."