Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

It's OK to feel good about yourself because it's not doing any good for anybody else to be fearful or spread anxiety.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

My happiness is very fragile.

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.