Lev Yilmaz Quotes

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

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I don't have time to be depressed.

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

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

Everyone goes through bad days, but that does not mean you should stop enjoying the good days.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

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

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

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

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

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

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

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.

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

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

Happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. It pops into your life unbidden, and then tends to pop out again. I'm on record as being depressive. It is related to winter.

When I'm having a tough patch I always try to focus on good things.

I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

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.