“Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood.”
"Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression."
- Jasmine Warga
Awareness
"Youre like a grey sky. Youre beautiful, even though you dont want to be."
- Jasmine Warga
Hope
"You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be."
- Jasmine Warga
Self-esteem
"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."
- Jasmine Warga
Belief in Self
"I will be stronger than my sadness."
- Jasmine Warga
Strength
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity