Concern should drive us into action, not depression.
The thing is I'm not worth the sorrow And if you come and Meet me tomorrow I will hold you down Fold you in Deep, deep, deep In the fiction we live.
I'm digging my way to something better. i'm sowing the seeds I take for granted. This thorn in my side is from the tree I planted. And it tears me and I bleed
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
“When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, “I am the watcher, I am not sadness,” and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.”
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.”
“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
“Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up”