Overcoming Depression Quotes

“This has been her life for the past fifty years, this striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right. This action was the only thing that sustained her during the hard times [when] only her purposeful life propped her up from total collapse, and she thought how strange that she had taught the morality play Everyman all those years but didn’t fully understand its central lesson or how true it was: We are our good deeds, and they alone will come with us into the afterlife.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Do you want to be in your own story or on the outside writing about it? Everyone battles fear and uncertainty every day. However, the only failure in life is believing that your value relies on other people's approval or resources. The reality is this: When you are living your authentic self and not how people want you to act, then you are free to use the full spectrum of your creativity and gifts. People don't need resources to get out of any life situation. They need creativity to create resources. When you realize that, becoming stuck is impossible.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Depression is focusing on yourself; on your troubles and what is not right. You can't be depressed if you are focusing on others. It's impossible.”
― Elizabeth Bourgeret

“Become aware of yourself. Everything will come to you, Chinmay, when you are in that most wonderful place on earth, the centre of your being. If you learn just one thing from this book, let it be that once you are aware of yourself, depression cannot hold you back any more than a tiger can be trapped in a spider’s web.”
― Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Trying to find answers to my many questions on life, I sought my answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but they only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.”
― Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“God determine the time and duration in the wilderness for every man.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“May you find comfort and peace in every situation.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“In the storm, our only anchor is hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Let go of your all fears, be strong.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“/Here it is: my winter. It’s an open invitation to transition into a more sustainable life and to wrest back control over the chaos I’ve created. It’s a moment when I have to step into solitude and contemplation. It’s also a moment when I have to walk away from all the alliances, to let the strings of some friendships fall loose, if only for a while. It’s a pathway walked over and over again in my life. I have learned the skill set of wintering the hard way.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“A great Tamil poet, given to decadence and debauchery, once said that the story of his life could serve as an example to the youth on how one should
not live. Having lived, or rather, having sleepwalked for ten years through the desolate wastelands of depression, I survived to reach the other side. I believe that this validates my claim to write this book for you.”
― Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“I had fallen into the pages of the book. Time stood still and I lost sense of my surroundings. Siddharth’s words were all that I was aware of. They were a drum beat in my being. A part of me understood instinctively then that the purpose of this adventure had been to bring me to this book. I did not doubt for a moment that it was addressed to anyone but me, and it was not only because it bore my name on the title page. The surreal dream, the kidnapping, the rescue, my saviour’s easy familiarity … It all seemed to fall into place somehow. I sensed this book held all my answers.

Even so, the words in the book frightened me like nothing had ever done before. Anu and Sabi were laughing, their heads bent together over a page. I tried to say something but my voice was stuck in my throat. I felt like a hook was being pulled through my heart. I tried to breathe. Then, out of sheer habit formed over fifteen years of my life, I did what came naturally to me when I was scared, upset or unhappy. I turned to the book in my lap and began to read.”
― Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Beware of ‘god men’ and ‘god women’. Even people who have not been depressed for a day in their lives get sucked into the seductive delusion of spirituality. If you must seek, seek by yourself, sitting in an armchair at your desk after office hours. For while Buddha saw the light, we do not know how many of his disciples did. If you must get guidance from a living guru, take it and move on. Gurus are no more than the teachers we had at school. You may find them when you need to learn, but you have to outgrow them in order to grow.”
― Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Work is of utmost importance in a person’s life and not only as a means of meeting one’s needs at various levels of Maslow’s pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.”
― Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“only when you illuminate others...without expectation or reward...will you truly understand how to illuminate yourself”
― Mark Marsland, Dying To Be Happy: Embracing Death Finding Life

“...when Ruthie reemerges...I lie there quietly listening to her fears, her sorrows. Then I tell her good-bye, muster my strength, rise and open the door and let the sunshine in. I become the grown-up Ruth and return to the world, no longer feeling so small, I step out, legs trembling a little but my heart full, and set forth on the next journey, entrusting myself to the beauty and danger of life all over again." the author, Ruth Behar”
― Ruth Behar, Lucky Broken Girl