Laughter while it lasts slackens and unbraces the mind weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits with transient unexpected gleams of joy one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth and then we are angry at being undervalued.
This is my depressed stance. When you?re depressed it makes a lot of difference how you stand…. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you?ll start to feel better…. If you?re going to get any joy oujt of being depressed you?ve got to stand like this.
Laughter while it lasts slackens and unbraces the mind weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits with transient unexpected gleams of joy one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
HYPOCHONDRIASIS n. Depression of ones own spirits.
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Much Madness is divinest Sense To a discerning Eye Much Sense the starkest Madness
This is my depressed stance. When you?re depressed it makes a lot of difference how you stand…. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you?ll start to feel better…. If you?re going to get any joy oujt of being depressed you?ve got to stand like this.
Overheard in a brokerage: I worry about economists who are so young that they think the Great Depression was ended by Prozac.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.