Claire Wineland Quotes

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.