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"The weight you life is not nearly as heavy as the weigh you carry."
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"There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.""They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid."Indeed.""Does it work? Are they happier dead?""Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."

"You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone."

"Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself."

"Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you."

"When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony."

"There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding."

"Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness."

"Make the tough choice, decide you will not be a garbage ground for other people's trash. Protect your mind."

"But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it."

"When the negative thoughts come - and they will they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought."
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"It is not enough just to believe in Christ. We have to believe that He believes in us so we can believe in ourselves. That's a sentence that deserves a re-read."

"Never tell a depressed person to "Cheer up. Unless you want them to tell you to "Shut up."

"You alone have the power to determine your value. Don't let somebody else paste a discount sticker on you. You're priceless."

"Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It's more than a state of mind. It's a condition of the heart."

"There's still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then."

"You are a creature meant to be free. Almost always, the person hardest to tell the truth to...is you. Once you can be honest with yourself, you'll find the strength and desire to be honest with others. It's the most freeing feeling imaginable. Go find a mirror and face yourself and your darkest truths. You have the light within you to chase away the dark demons that hold you down and push you back into the black corners of your past. You deserve better. You are a child of light and light hidden behind dark clouds, does nothing to brighten the world."

"When you lay your head on the pillow at the end of the night, can you think of three things you did during the day to make your life better? Did you nourish your body? Your spirit? Your mind? If not, get back up and do something that good for YOU."

"Three words will allow you to change your thinking and change your life, "I am responsible"."
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