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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 23, 2013 23:54:14 GMT -5
“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”--David Richo
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."-- Kahlil Gibran
“When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.”--Alan Cohen
“The more you are able to forgive, then the more you are able to love.”--Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."--Jim Rohn
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”--Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight Freedom, I wonder why it's emerald green? Seems like the ribbon for depression would be dark or smokey gray or maybe rainy day blue...
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 25, 2013 0:09:36 GMT -5
"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl."--Stephan Hoeller
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."--Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Do not think of a painful experience as a dark time in your life. You emerge out of everything learning something or becoming a better person. You realize who your real friends are and how much your loved ones mean to you.”--Colleen Ho
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, we call a butterfly."--Unknown
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong--because someday in your life you will have been all of these."--George Washington Carver
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Post by messymimi on Mar 25, 2013 10:39:11 GMT -5
"Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking." ~ Doug Coupland
"Depression is rage spread thin." ~ George Santayana
Not sure i agree with either of these, but they are food for thought.
messymimi
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 26, 2013 1:26:39 GMT -5
"Despair is due not to failure, but to the inability to hear deeply and personally the challenge that confronts us."--Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."--Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy."--Samuel Johnson
"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."--Brendan Francis
"Fear melts when you take action toward a goal you really want."--Robert G. Allen
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only thing you need to give up to get what you want, is your story about why you can’t have it."--Anthony Robbins
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."--James R. Cook
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 26, 2013 1:37:37 GMT -5
"Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking." ~ Doug Coupland
"Depression is rage spread thin." ~ George Santayana
Not sure i agree with either of these, but they are food for thought.
messymimi They definitely are food for thought, Mimi, and since they're both about the some of the pain and hurts that accompany depression, they've reminded me of this quote: "Turn your wounds into wisdom."--Oprah Winfrey
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 26, 2013 18:39:19 GMT -5
"Every time a person gets depressed, the connections in the brain between mood, thoughts, the body, and behavior get stronger, making it easier for depression to be triggered again. At the earliest stages in which mood starts spiraling downward, it is not the mood that does the damage, but how we react to it."--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
“If we have been depressed before, a low mood can become easier and easier to trigger over time, because each time it returns, the thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and behaviors that accompany it form stronger and stronger connections to each other. Eventually, any one element can trigger depression by itself.”--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
"I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it."--Louise Hay
“Our reactions to unhappiness can transform what might otherwise be a brief, passing sadness into persistent dissatisfaction and unhappiness.”--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
"When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness. Research has repeatedly shown that if we have tended to react to our sadness or depressed moods in these ways in the past, then we are likely to find the same strategy volunteering to ‘help’ again and again when our moods start to slide. And it will have the same effect: we’ll get stuck in the very mood from which we are trying to escape. As a consequence, we are at even higher risk of experiencing repeated bouts of unhappiness."--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
"You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power, and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may make use of it the moment you learn to control your thoughts."--Napoleon Hill
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 28, 2013 0:07:30 GMT -5
“If there is a single definition of healing, it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay."--Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.”--Alan Cohen
"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."--Will Rogers
“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”--C. JoyBell C.
“Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever."--Rachel Naomi Remen
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 28, 2013 23:46:18 GMT -5
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."--Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work."--John Lubbock
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”--Theodore Roosevelt
"The lowest ebb is the turn in the tide."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."--Confucius
"Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head."--Mignon McLaughlin
"Most people act as if they're hanging by their fingernails on the face of a high cliff. What they don't realize is that they're about six inches off the valley floor."--Unknown
"As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were."--The Zahir
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”--Helen Keller
“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”--Rumi
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Post by slobovian on Mar 29, 2013 2:09:48 GMT -5
Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
It's better to be doing than stewing.
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Post by messymimi on Mar 29, 2013 8:04:50 GMT -5
"Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion." ~ Tony Campolo
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Post by sidestep on Mar 29, 2013 8:25:15 GMT -5
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."--Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Do not think of a painful experience as a dark time in your life. You emerge out of everything learning something or becoming a better person. You realize who your real friends are and how much your loved ones mean to you.”--Colleen Ho
These 2 strike a chord & are great!
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 29, 2013 23:51:54 GMT -5
"Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion." ~ Tony Campolo
messymimi Mimi, your quote reminded me of this one (and I think they both may have a grain--or more--of truth to them): "A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work."--Geoffrey Norman
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 30, 2013 0:31:55 GMT -5
"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."--Karen Horney
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."--Lena Horne
“We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive."--Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."--Steven Wright
"...If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you."--John Maxwell
"I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it has all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves."--Bear Grylls
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain."--Vivian Greene Slobovian, thank you so much for the great quotes! I especially like the one about discipline--that's always been one of my biggest problems. (Me? A discipline problem? No... ) Sidestep, I'm so glad those two quotes struck a chord with you. So often I think people struggling with depression--or any serious problem, for that matter--can easily forget that their problems can indeed make them better, stronger and/or more beautiful people in the long run.
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Post by angela on Mar 30, 2013 1:17:10 GMT -5
"When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness. Research has repeatedly shown that if we have tended to react to our sadness or depressed moods in these ways in the past, then we are likely to find the same strategy volunteering to ‘help’ again and again when our moods start to slide. And it will have the same effect: we’ll get stuck in the very mood from which we are trying to escape. As a consequence, we are at even higher risk of experiencing repeated bouts of unhappiness."--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness This HAD been me, a think-a-holic, and my favorite subject was my own life and my unhappiness. I'm not sure that all the thinking was a bad thing, but the chewing on the same stuff definitely has been. My little Program has helped me stop the ruminating and analyzing and lo and behold...the emotions just seem to pass, as long as I'm not feeding them with a bunch of thinking!
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Post by angela on Mar 30, 2013 1:22:03 GMT -5
"...If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you."--John Maxwell
True for some perhaps, but depression and other emotional troubles in my life have definitely been uncontrollable. I am powerless! Probably why I have so much trouble accepting any version of "create your own reality". I am on the lower end of the spectrum of controlling myself in many ways.
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