Depression can be usefully seen, from one point of view, as the inability to see or construct a future.

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"It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible."

- Rollo May

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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

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Adversity

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."

- Rollo May

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"Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds."

- Rollo May

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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."

- Rollo May

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"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

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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