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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
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"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."
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"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors."
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"Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."
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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
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"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."
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"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments."
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"I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
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"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."
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"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
Commitment
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
Freedom
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
Society
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
Creativity
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
Communication
"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
Happiness
"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness."
Care
"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."
Love
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
Habit
"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
Death
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