R. C. Sproul Quotes

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it - it's not that dramatic, it's just a bit, kind of, 'Here we go, this is what we're doing today. This is sad. But we're gonna get through it.'

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

Hard work's a good distraction.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

It can be difficult going through a period of time where you feel depressed because it can become your identifier. In the sense that you wake up, you're depressed; you talk to your friends, you're complaining that you're depressed; you talk to your parents, you're unmotivated. You know what you could do to try to overcome it - although obviously there's no cure - but you start to feel like, 'what will happen to me if I feel better? Who am I when I'm happy. I'm so used to feeling like this.'

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

Being less stressed doesn't mean that you stop doing things.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

[My best tip for overcoming depression is] to regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it won't be raining and accept it so you can find a mental umbrella to shield yourself from the worst. The sun will eventually come up.