“Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.”

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

You must accept the reality of other people.

You must accept the reality of other people.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Size is no guarantee of power.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

A good first impression can work wonders.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.

I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.

Suffering is a test. That’s all it is. Suffering is the true test of life.

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

Depression. And obsession don’t mix well.

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it’s therapeutic to me. It’s a release. It’s how I vent emotionally.

Music is a science, it heals depression.

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can see and feel.