To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.