Patch grief with proverbs.
William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: grief sadness depression

It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.
Naomi Williams Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: gratitude depression attitude

'Tis all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow;
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.
William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: words grief sorrow depression

Sadness is primal. How we respond --
W. Paul Jones 'Courage as the heart of faith' by W. Paul Jones, Weavings May/June 1997
Categories: sadness depression choice attitude

The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: depression fear stress anxiety

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
Penelope Sweet Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: depression grief hurts forgiveness

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson Simple Abundance
Categories: happiness duty joy sadness sad depression

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Lao-tzu The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy pleasure sadness depression

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: crying tears weeping depression sadness

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude depression sadness emotions self-control

If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent, and so would always be able to have water in abundance, how fortunate he would consider himself; so too, when a man who...is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy mood attitude depression sadness

Despair is criminal.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: mood attitude despair depression sadness

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action happiness mood attitude depression

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he
``Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy striving despair depression self-acceptance

Three things are fundamental to an understanding of mourning. First, each loss launches us on an inescapable course through grief. Second, each loss revives all past losses. Third, each loss, if fully mourned, can be a vehicle for growth and regeneration.
Vamik D. Volkan, MD Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief
Categories: grief mourning depression death grieving

The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can absorb.
Jan Coleman After the Locusts: Restoring Ruined Dreams, Reclaiming Wasted Years
Categories: joy happiness sadness depression pain adversity

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
P.D. Ouspensky You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: pessimism negativity depression sadness self-defeatism

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: suffering pain despair depression overcoming misery

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude choice happiness depression sadness happy joy

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Mao Tse-Tung The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: difficulty adversity problems depression sadness perspective

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
Categories: sadness depression alone loneliness depressed emotions feelings

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
Robert S. Walker Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude sorrow depression choice emotions sadness

Action is worry's worst enemy.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action worry anxiety depression attitude stress

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: wisdom mood emotion sorrow sadness depression

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: sorrow depression sadness learning growth cure

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: depression sadness attitude mood complaint speech

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro Franklin Seasons DayPlanner Friday October 8, 1993
Categories: joy happiness sadness depression attitude emotions feelings choice

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Dr. Karl Menninger Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love despair depression sadness relationships marriage friendships

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
Andre Maurois Light from Many Lamps
Categories: success materialism focus possessions goals unhappiness depression

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: hope depression sadness misery pain grief despair

Never despair.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: hope depression attitude problems challenges difficulties sadness

Have a variety of interests...These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: hobbies stress longevity happiness happy joy sadness depression

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy attitude choice circumstances character sadness depression

Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.
Charles D. Brodhead 100 Meditations on Hope
Categories: hope meditation silence despair depression faith spirit god

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-pity depression sadness attitude success failure wisdom

Hesitation, depression or envy of those who appear to have what we want are often signs of weakness or lack of vigorous, clear purpose. These feelings may be saying we're not yet ready to create our good. When we're emotionally unprepared, we want something for nothing, and quickly.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: depression envy weakness purpose vision mission fear

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.
Jane Fonda Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: pain suffering despair depression emotions hurt healing

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William Burnham The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: fear depression worry anxiety action work effort

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius How to Want What You Have
Categories: pain suffering despair depression emotions choice attitude

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: limitations disability disabilities handicaps sadness depression attitude

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
William Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: past grief depression attitude focus present future

Life experience teaches that we generally get back what we put out. If we don't like what we are getting back, we should examine what we are putting out.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: happiness mood attitude reciprocation depression sadness success failure

While there's life, there's hope!
Ancient Roman Saying Be Hopeful: How to make the best of times out of the worst of times
Categories: hope adversity problems difficulties challenges depression sadness despair

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there is never any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: misery sadness depression grief problems challenges obstacles difficulties

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Christian Boyee The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort sadness depression busy emotions feelings

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves``us--and those around us--more effectively. Look for the learning.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: pain change emotion depression learning wisdom obstacles difficulties

I will make myself laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: mood depression sadness laughter attitude joy fear cry weep choice

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: cycles hope despair depression sadness unhappiness expectations prayer

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Helen Keller Light from Many Lamps
Categories: unhappy unhappiness sadness depression meaning ministry giving volunteerism

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: forgiveness depression sadness unhappiness perfectionism expectation mercy grace

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness struggle challenge pain suffering depression sadness attitude

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller Light from Many Lamps
Categories: sharing giving volunteerism share give happiness meaning sadness depression

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Henri Nouwen John S. Mogabgah's Editor's Introduction to the ``September/October 1998 Weavings: Woven Together in Love.
Categories: struggle pain depression illness disability overcome overcoming despair example leadership

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness relationships friendship attitude responsibility choice depression sadness unhappiness

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: joy happy happiness sadness depression purpose meaning fulfillment service ministry

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: give up giving up resignation quit quitting desperation depression sadness failure

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
John Sutherland Bonnell The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy sadness depression despair sharing giving love relationships friendship duty

Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary for one's life.
Joanna Field Simple Abundance
Categories: happiness joy fulfillment meaning necessities emotions feelings sadness depression self-awareness self-esteem

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.
Henri Nouwen The Wounded Healer<
Categories: pain suffering depression despair escape overcome overcoming life perspective hope

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Lillian Eichler Watson
Categories: happiness attitude depression sadness thought joy inner peace positive thinking focus choice

A man used to vissicitudes is not easily dejected.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: problems obstacles difficulties challenges mood attitude emotion depression sadness experience

The secret cause of all suffering is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.
Joseph Campbell, as quoted by Bill Moyers in the introduction The Power of Myth
Categories: suffering pain mortality life death wellness meaning grief acceptance joy fulfillment depression

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus How to Want What You Have:
Categories: life sin mistake failure despair depression suicide appreciation gratitude meaning wishing focus

Knowing that no one avoids sorrow, humiliation, pain, or death creates a foundation for universal, unconditional compassion. If we know that these things cannot be avoided, then we might try to compete, wish, hope, and fear a little less frantically, which could make life more fun. In other words, when we really get it that life will be painful at times, we become more inclined to "stop and smell the roses."
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: pain tragedy sorrow despair depression mistakes failure common groud leisure joy happiness

Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness choice attitude depression sadness happy unhappiness unhappy learning growth self-improvement

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
W.L. Shirer The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy spirituality sadness depression meditation journaling prayer self-control self-discipline quiet time

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: wealth money possessions things relationships friendships perspective sadness depression unhappiness choice power

Adversity and loss make a man wise.``    
Welsh proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: adversity loss pain suffering difficulties challenges sickness illness grief depression problems troubles

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: sorrow sadness despair depression attitude emotions feelings action work meaning purpose fulfillment

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in exemption from, suffering.
Francois de Fenelon The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: peace serenity materialism suffering acceptance inner soul spirituality pain disability illness challenges obstacles depression

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: money materialism possessions necessities soul spirituality priorities happiness joy happy depression poverty rich wealth

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: humor wellness body mind anxiety depression sadness friendship relationships serenity peace calm contentment

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: wants desires lusts sensuality selfishness sadness depression meaning fulfillment service ministry giving sharing self-sacrifice

...true happiness stems from a quality within ourselves, from a way of thinking of life. Of all the millions of words written on happiness, this is the oldest and most enduring truth. If the principles of contentment are not within us, no material success, no pleasures or possessions, can make us happy.
Lillian Eichler Watson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness attitude depression contentment materialism sadness success joy happy focus money possessions indulgence balance character

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.
Martin Seligman What You Can Change... and What You Can't
Categories: pessimism wellness sadness depression failure success achievement health attitude emotions feelings negative thinking optimism

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
J.B. Priestley Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness fulfillment meaning selflessness selfishness depression sadness emotions attitude giving sharing community service ministry

One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Sophocles Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love pain suffering despair depression love relationships friendships support

There is surely a future hope for you, ``and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 23:18 Holy Bible
Categories: hope pain suffering depression sadness misery pain grief despair

For most of us, joy in life is at times diminished by too much worry, by periods of depression, or by other disturbing moods. The demands of modern life keep up a pressure which constantly threatens our psychological well-being. Keeping psychologically fit will help you to withstand these demands and will give you the flexibility and stamina to make the most of yourself.
Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD Managing Your Mind
Categories: joy worry anxiety stress depression emotions feelings moods pressure stress

Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: worry stress challenges illness problems depression disability sadness adversity problems

It is amazing that our souls--our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world--are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.
Marion Woodman from the essay "Soul Moments" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: souls pain emotions depression hope dream vision suffering spirituality illness physical body mortality cancer terminal illness disability overcoming

...so often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.
Lynn V. Andrews Walk in Balance
Categories: growth meaning of life purpose fulfillment pain challenges problems time struggle despair depression challenges adversity learning self-improvement problems illness disability