Marianne Williamson Quotes

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 happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

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.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.

I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Life is hard already. Why make it harder?

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

I've had to find my sanity.

I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

I don't have time to be depressed.

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

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