Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

~ Amit Kalantri

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The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

~ Spider Robinson

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It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.

~ Anne Brontë

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We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.

~ Harold Holzer

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all interest in romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance.

~ Charles Dickens

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When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

~ Charles Dickens

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When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.

~ John Piper

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Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

~ C.s. Lewis

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There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.

~ William Manchester

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Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

~ Richard Brookhiser

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Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.

~ Dennis Garvin

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