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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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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."

"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."

"We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression."

"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."

"I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing."

"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in."

"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."

"I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff."

"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."

"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

"In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?"

".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."

"The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things."

"My friedns, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete."

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
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