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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
– Neel Burton

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  2. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing. – Neel Burton
  3. Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story. – Morgan Spurlock
  4. It’s absurd how crazy love can make you……but even more absurd how stupid jealousy can make you! – Mirella Muffarotto
  5. Philosophy gives life to life. – Neel Burton
  6. Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes. – Cheri K Erdman
  7. If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues. – Nelson Mandela
  8. P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality. – Paulo Freire
  9. Love is like chickenpox. It’s much worse when it comes late. – Neel Burton
  10. Of all funny things, truth is the funniest. – Neel Burton
  11. An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone. – Neel Burton
  12. It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. – Neel Burton
  13. One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. – Neel Burton
  14. The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. – Neel Burton
  15. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness. – Neel Burton
  16. The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude. – Neel Burton
  17. If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth. – Neel Burton
  18. When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive. – Neel Burton
  19. No one ever pays to learn the most important things. – Neel Burton
  20. Maths is at only one remove from magic. – Neel Burton
  21. A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn’t. – Neel Burton
  22. The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them. – Neel Burton
  23. The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them. – Neel Burton
  24. A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone. – Neel Burton
  25. Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling. – Neel Burton
  26. Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don’t smile back. – Neel Burton
  27. Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money. – Neel Burton
  28. A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. – Neel Burton
  29. A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
  30. A healthy society begins with healthy individuals. – Sabina Nore
  31. Healthy brains create a healthy society. – Abhijit Naskar
  32. Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
  33. MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
  34. Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? – Irvin D Yalom
  35. Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
  36. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
  37. If depression was a choice, no one would choose it. Depression is not a choice. – Northern Adams
  38. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – Hazel Grace Lancaster – John Green
  39. Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. – Jan Wong
  40. depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – John Green

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