Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

Despair is part of love.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.