Dave Ramsey Quotes

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.

I don’t care if it’s dog piss. It makes me feel better.

There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.

For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you're sad or you're overwhelmed, we consider it whining or complaining. People say, 'Count your blessings,' and it's like, 'Yeah, I am, but I'm still sad. Something is wrong with me.' I had to acknowledge it.

I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.