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.
J. K. ROWLINGWhat’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.
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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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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.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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