Mitch Albom Quotes

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them. I meditate on positive energy, goals, and long-term happiness. Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Self-pity shortens your life.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

I can laugh at my own grief.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.