Oswald Chambers Quotes

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.

One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think I'll ever have the day-to-day consistency in my performance that something like This American Life has. If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and without interruption and without existential emptiness that comes from depression, that gives me - not mania. But I exalt. I exalt in not being depressed.

To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have done all of that without being in psychoanalysis.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

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.

I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

I am not a depressive person at all.

I don't have time to be depressed.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.