“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.

Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.

You have a choice everyday, You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.