Quote by Lisa Feldman Barrett

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

— K. Flay

“Because we have never been taught any other way to meet our distress, we don’t realize how much our habits of avoidance or brooding…

— Ed Halliwell

“Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think? Remember”

— Donna Tartt

“When we fail to live up to our own expectations, we’ll despair. When we fail to live up to the expectations of others, we’ll…

— Byron Forrest Yawn

“We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

— Joan Robinson

“Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“And when we make choices informed by a depressive state of mind, they're more than likely to keep us stuck in our unhappiness.”

— J. Mark G. Williams

“Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“If people could just understand how it actually felt to be depressed, obsessed, frightened, out of control, maybe they’d be more tolerant, more understanding.”

— Victoria Leatham

“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of depression and…

— Lawrence G. Taylor

“some evidence has accumulated that people who habitually fail to put the most favorable cast on their circumstances run the risk of depression.”

— Thomas Gilovich