Depression Quote by Tracy Thompson

“I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.”

Tracy Thompson

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Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

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Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

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“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.”

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