There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

Hope is only the love of life.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

Everyone else has a work party, 'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.

The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree.

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

I always find time to hang with friends at least once a week or just watch TV and play video games. The combination of Netflix and food is just the best.

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.