Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

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

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

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

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

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

I don't have time to be depressed.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

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

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

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