Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
David D. Burns
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SOHEIR KHASHOGGI Negative thinking is associated with low self-esteem. A person who is low in self esteem displays hi... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso... ANGIE KARAN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS There's dignity in suffering Nobility in pain But failure is a salted wound That burns and burns aga... MARGERY ELDREDGE HOWELL More a person could actually feel and think, less s/he would be seen getting attracted towards the m... ANUJ SOMANY Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable. ANUJ SOMANY Loyalty is smart with patience. AULIQ ICE One day in the future men will look at the present and wish for an undo option. EVANS BIYA I fear the age we entering, there isn't much that is known and can be said about the fate of humanit... EVANS BIYA Without friction a simple linear equation expresses the amount of energy you need to accelerate a ho... JAMES GLEICK I have become aggravated which have ignited my blood to become activated. BERTICE HOPKINS It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you wit... EMMA FORREST It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one ... STEPHEN RICHARDS Do you ever find yourself feeling stuck in negative thought patterns that dampen your expectations? ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Distant voices reached him; inwardly, he sighed, and reluctantly brought the kiss to an end. He... STEPHANIE LAURENS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. 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BO BURNHAM Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ge... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they hav... DAVID D. BURNS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good manage... PAUL GIBBONS Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY Calamity is man's true touchstone. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race. A woman only needs to be avai... MASTERS AND JOHNSON The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. GLASER AND WAY Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. LICHTY AND WAGNER It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an e... WATANABE AND AVAKIAN There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parame... TROUBLE AND STRIFE I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world. I am simply useless and wanderin... GINGER AND ROSA Patricia Compton, you are great at what you do and your beautiful spirit added so much to our specia... REAH AND PAUL The key to finding beauty is to know where to look. SEIGFRIED AND ROY That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain. TWIST AND SHOUT For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo... ROLF AND RANGER A person who never made a mistake, never made anything." ~Rosamund Pilcher, Endings and Beginnings ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS It will happen but it will take time. JOHN BOWLBY I felt loss at every hand. The loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom, and my own sense o... WILLIAM STYRON Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I'... CHINA MIéVILLE A person who has intelligence understands that the knowledge can only be acquired, not common sense ... ANUJ SOMANY — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi. — Who knows it better? — Yet you believ... ALAN PATON Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self... SCOTT HAMILTON I was thinking, maybe, the child was still alive. JOHN SMITH To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. ... ALFRED ADLER Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a mo... CHLOE THURLOW Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES One thing that gives meaning to our thinking, drive our understanding, and determines what makes us ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Although the outward picture of depression is quite the opposite of that of grandiosity and has a qu... ALICE MILLER, THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD In order to create, equilibrium must be broken. DANIEL PARRIS Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore hi... JOHN GRAY This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that som... KELLY CUTRONE She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Low self-esteem can make it hard to try new things or complete tasks. This can stop you from living ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation... STEPHEN R. COVEY You can replace negative self-talk with optimistic thoughts. It is possible to change a negative per... LYNN C. TOLSON I believe that all men and women will be saved. PAT BUCKLEY
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Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air. ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine--no distant date;
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[Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru... ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear. ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free,
I'll be sad for nae-body;
If nae-body cares for me,
I'll care fo... ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd. ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing. FRANK BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. GEORGE BURNS Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch! GEORGE BURNS Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ... KEN BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation. ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend. ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard of concealing:
But, och! it hardens a' within,
... ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am... ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
from the poem
The Cotter’s Saturday Ni... ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blu... ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature... ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I... ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!
My peace with these, my love with those.
The burstin... ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole ... ROBERT BURNS O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy h... ROBERT BURNS But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the sn... ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn! ROBERT BURNS The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I'll remember thee, G... ROBERT BURNS O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blund... ROBERT BURNS My dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons o... ROBERT BURNS Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo. ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal. ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,
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Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!
Ye woodbines, hanging... ROBERT BURNS The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that. ROBERT BURNS A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
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Still gentler sister woman;
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