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If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Waiting around for someone else to make you happy is the best way to be sad.

One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It’s a system that’s supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That’s how the system guides you through the world.

Stress and unhappiness come not from situations, but how you respond to situations.

The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass.

A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.

Saying someone can’t be sad because someone else may have it worse is like saying someone can’t be happy because someone else may have it better.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

I’m stronger because of the hard times, wiser because of my mistakes, and happier because I have known sadness.

Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.

The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.

Don’t let past relationships ruin your future happiness. Scars remind us of where we’ve been, not where we are going.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have—life itself.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.