Depression Quotes

These depression quotes are here for their positive messages of hope and inspiration on your road to recovery. My aim, as always, is to nurture and encourage you in your recovery.

I hope you find a depression quote here that resonates with your spirit and helps you to see all the beauty that life has to offer you if you dare to just take the next step.

Enjoy!

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." --Dale Carnegie

"Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself." -- Nathaniel Brand

"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 thing." --Agatha Christie

"You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you." -- Dan Millman

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -- Helen Keller

"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 thing in the world for you." --Walt Disney

"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

"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. Discover." --Mark Twain

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." --Socrates

"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. " --Charlie Brown

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." --George Eliott

Remember, you are not a depressed person, you are a person who is just currently experiencing a depressing period in your life...you are more than just a condition you currently have. --Dr. Rich

I hope these depression quotes make a difference in your life and lift you up to the wonder of life!

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