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

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: contentment sadness self-reliance will character

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one gives joy or sorrow...We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness sadness unhappiness actions attitude

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: happiness joy misery sadness attitude growth progress vision

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: regrets mature sorrow sadness change life circumstances

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: life sorrow sadness joy happiness failure loss living

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If each of us can be helped by science to live a hundred years, what will it profit us if our hates and fears, our loneliness and our remorse will not permit us to enjoy them?
David Neiswanger The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: joy life fulfillment hate fear isolation guilt sadness wellness attitude

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and outgrowing the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul... You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phelan The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: youth attitude ideals enthusiasm doubt fear sadness despair faith hope self-confidence

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

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

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

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

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

You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life.
MacRina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
Categories: joy sorrow pain suffering love beauty dreams routine living meaning wisdom daily events happiness problems struggles difficulties mistakes sadness goals hopes spirituality