Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

Theories without data are like daydreams.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.

Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

Too much of whatever is dangerous.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

It's important how we feel in our homes, because feeling good makes us more gracious. And that makes it easier to welcome others not only into our homes but into our lives.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

Eyes open, then," I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!