There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.