"..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache."

-- Peter McWilliams

#Depression Quotes #Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.”
“Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.”
“I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'”
“Technically, you can’t fault Jadeja. Seam or spin, fast or slow every goddamn thing is a problem.”
“Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.”

Source : Jon Winokur (1993). “Mondo Canine”, Plume
“People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.”
“Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.”

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