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The School of Life Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“The cure for unrequited love is, in structure, therefore very simple. We  must get to know them better. The more we discovered of them, the less they would ever look like the solution to all our problems. ”
— The School of Life, The Cure for Unrequited Love
Tagged: Unrequited Love
“For intense period of our lives, we suffer the agony of unrequited love. Our sorrow is accompanied by a certainty that if only the elusive being would return our smiles, come for dinner or marry us, we would know bliss.”
— The School of Life, The Cure for Unrequited Love
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Love
“Being miserable doesn't exclude us from the human community. It's a sure sign that we're very normal – and that life is progressing, in its own dark way, more or less exactly to plan.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression
“Things we thought we'd never be able to get over become gradually become bearable; we adjust our mental posture, we stoop to accomodate a new reality.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression
“Things can get slightly better for reasons it's hard to foresee. Just as pleasures fade and can seem meaningless in retrospect, so pains (at least sometimes) can pass or soften.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression, Depression Awareness
“We should accord ourselves the same degree of forgiveness we wouldn't hesitate to direct to an acquaintance.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding yourself, Understanding Depression, Depression Awareness
“We live so close to ourselves, we know so much about our private failings, we miss that our flaws are general: present even in the outwardly placid, the beautiful, the rich and the people next door.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression, Depression Awareness
“Our tribulations are a symptom of being human, never just a curse attached to our silver of existence.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression, Depression Awareness
“Sorrow is not an individual failing; it is a basic reality for our entire species.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression
“We rely on an internal engine or muscle of hope to pump out consoling thoughts. Then one day the task seems to much; the muscle can't take it anymore.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression
“Societies tend slyly to insist on cheerfulness. We end up not only struggling, but humiliated that we are in such difficulties. Yet, in truth, there is nothing more natural or routine than grief.”
— The School of Life, On Feeling Depressed
Tagged: Depression, Understanding Depression, Accepting Depression
“We must suffer alone, but we can at least hold out our arms to a similarly tortured, fractured and above all else, anxious neighbors as if to say in the kindest way possible, I know!”
— The School of Life, Why We're All So Anxious
Tagged: Anxiety, Accepting Anxiety
“We should learn to laugh about our anxieties, laugh to be the exuberant expression of relief when a hither to private agony, is given a well-crafted social formulation in a joke.”
— The School of Life, Why We're All So Anxious
Tagged: Fighting Anxiety, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder
“The single most important move is to accept that we'll always be anxious. There is no need on top of everything else to be anxious, that we're anxious. The mood is no sign that our lives have gone wrong, merely that we're alive.”
— The School of Life, Why We're All So Anxious
Tagged: Anxiety, Accepting Anxiety
“Though we may focus day-to-day on this or that particular worry creating static in our minds, what we're really up against is anxiety as a permanent feature of life: something irrevocable, existential, dogged and responsible for ruining a dominant share for our brief time on earth.”
— The School of Life, Why We're All So Anxious
Tagged: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety and Stress
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