Darlene Cates Quotes

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

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.

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.

I don't torture myself.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

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

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'

What's happening to me is I'm still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can't, you know, I mean, I'm OK.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

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

Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.

I just want to stay happy and healthy in my mind.

If you love yourself there's plenty left for everyone else. You just have to deflect natsy things.

I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.

I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.

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

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.