Read through these thoughts and mantras from others whove been there.

So pick your favorites and keep them handy the next time you need a little mental boost.

We must have pie.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

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Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

David Mamet

No need to hurry.

No need to sparkle.

We must have pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

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No need to be anybody but oneself.

John Fugelsang

You are flesh and blood!

And you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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And oh, how much!

Anne Lamott

Sadness is more or less like a head cold with patience, it passes.

Depression is like cancer.

Depression is the soul’s way of telling you to change something in your life, not cut your own bangs.

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Aparna Nancherla

Ive never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

Maria Bamford

Give your stress wings and let it fly.

Terri Guillemets

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

You are flesh and blood! And you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given. And oh, how much!

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And youre tied together with a smile, but youre becoming undone.

Taylor Swift, Tied Together With a Smile

Youll never find a rainbow if youre looking down.

Charlie Chaplin

“Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

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Maybe one of these days you’re free to let the light in.

Show me how big your brave is.”

Sara Bareilles, Brave

“You’re like a grey sky.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold. With patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer

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You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.”

It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time.

Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

Sometimes I feel sad for no reason, but then I remember: A few reasons.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel,Prozac Nation

Youve gotta swim and swim when it hurts.

The whole world is watching.

You havent come this far to fall off the earth.

I’ve never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope

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Andrew McMahon, Swim

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

Today, its like theres rock bottom, 50 feet of crap, then me.

Rachel,Friends

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”

Give your stress wings and let it fly.

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Ha Jin, “A Center”

“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair.

It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”

It doesn’t mean you’re defectiveit just means you’re human."

The things we fear the most have already happened to us

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Epictetus

“Dance until your bones clatter.

What a prize you are.

What a lucky sack of stars.”

No one knows that you cry, but you don’t tell anyone that you might not be the golden one. And you’re tied together with a smile, but you’re becoming undone.

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Amit Ray,Om Chanting and Meditation

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live. Maybe one of these days you can let the light in. Show me how big your brave is.

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You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.

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Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength—carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.

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A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight

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You’ve gotta swim and swim when it hurts. The whole world is watching. You haven’t come this far to fall off the earth.

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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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Today, it’s like there’s rock bottom, 50 feet of crap, then me.

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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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You must hold your quiet center, where you do what only you can do.

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Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

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Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within

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You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective—it just means you’re human.

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‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

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Dance until your bones clatter. What a prize you are. What a lucky sack of stars

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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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Life is 10 percent what you experience and 90 percent how you respond to it.

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