Quotes on Overcoming Depression

If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

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

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

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.

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

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.