As we know depression is a very big problem. We want to help people who are suffering from depression with the help of positive quotes for depression. We have collected one of the best positive quotes which help in motivating the person. You can also share these positive quotes for someone suffering from depression.
We have also added one of the best positive quotes for depression and anxiety, take a look below.
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Positive Quotes For Depression
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. – Joyce Meyer
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very 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. Depression is very different. – J.K. Rowling
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. – Alan Cohen
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke
I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed. – Katie McGarry
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
It is never too late to live happily ever after.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Author Unknown
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others. – Jasmine Warga
Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light. – Cate Stevens
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key. – The Eagles
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. – Victor Hugo
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. – Meister Eckhart
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
When people don’t know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental. – Marion Cotillard
You become what you think about. – Earl Nightingale
You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values. – Gilbert Baker
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. – Khalil Gibran
Positive Quotes For Someone Suffering With Depression
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. – Mike Krzyzewski
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. – Leroy Satchel Paige
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. – Norman Vincent Peale
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. – Dodie Smith
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. – C.S. Lewis
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia
We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. – R.M. Drake
What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think. – Dr. Patrick Gentempo
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Positive Motivational Quotes For Depression
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
Healing is not linear.
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive. – Frida Kahlo
I was only 9 years old. At that time you don’t realize that you can work super hard and give everything you have and lose. It was the best message for me. – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
I’ve certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary—the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going. – Malcolm Gets
I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason, every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson… Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is. – Robin Sharma
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. – Robert Frost
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. – Grantland Rice
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. – Maya Angelou
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. – Parker Palmer
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Suffering has been stronger than all other teachings and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. – Charles Dickens
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future. – Bernard Meltzer
Positive Quotes For Depression And Anxiety
Life is a combination of happiness and pain. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Having a broad perspective on life gives you the strength to move forward through painful times. Know that you are very much needed in this world. With all its infinite possibilities, this life is a gift for it can become a fountain of joy and happiness not just for oneself but for many others as well. – Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
Doubt comes when your energy is low, when the body and mind feel exhausted. Someone who is full of enthusiasm or energy does not get doubts. – Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. – Richard L. Evans
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green
Give yourself another day, another chance. You will find your courage eventually. Don’t give up on yourself just yet.
You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human. – David Mitchell
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. – Viktor E. Frankl
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prevert
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
