Quotes on Help With Depression

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

Ring the bells that still can ring.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.