39 phrases that will fill your heart with hope if you are struggling with depression

Sometimes it’s difficult—in fact, practically impossible—to find the right words to explain how much you want to hope in your life that there will be better days.

Depression has a unique way of coloring your world in different shades of gray, taking your mood to an ever-lower level, leaving you empty and lost.

As hard as it is, when you wake up in the morning, remember that you are valuable. Remember all the hope there is in the world. You can get over it, you will get over it!

39 phrases that will fill your heart with hope if you are struggling with depression:

1. “If you only knew how important you are to the lives of those who know you; How important you can be to people you never even dreamed of. There is something special about you that you leave in every conversation with another person.” – Fred Rogers

two. “It takes the human voice to infuse the nuances of deeper meaning.” – Maya Angelou

3. “No matter where your mind wanders, your life is always happening in the now.” – Dean Jackson

4. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again.” – Victor Hugo

5. “We must accept finite disappointments, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. “Once you choose hope, everything becomes possible.” – Christopher Reeve

7. “Beating depression requires a lifetime commitment. I made this commitment for my life and for the sake of those who love me. ” – Susan Polis Schutz

8. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances rather than your circumstances having power over you.” -Joyce Meyer

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9. “People like to tell their problems, but they don’t tell their joys. If they counted them as they should, they would see that they have enough happiness.” – Fodor Dostoevsky

10. “Keep busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the worst enemy.” – Matt Lucas

11. “It may be that you have to know the dark before you can appreciate the light.” – Madeleine L’Engle

12. “There are far better things ahead than anything we left behind.” -CS Lewis

13. “The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from developing love and compassion. The more we care about the happiness of others, the greater our sense of well-being.” – Tenzin Gyatso

14. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

15. “Change your thoughts and you will change the world.” – Norman Peale

16. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will begin to have positive results.” – Willie Nelson

17. “A person who has never made a mistake has never tried something new.” – Albert Einstein

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18. “Happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have. It just depends on what you think.” – Dale Carnegie

19. “If you deliberately think you are less than you are capable of being, I warn you that you will be unhappy for the rest of your life.” – Abraham H. Maslow

20. “Self-pity will get you nowhere. You need to have the adventurous audacity to accept yourself as a package of possibilities and play the most interesting game in the world: make the most of your best.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

21. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming.” – Helen Keller

22. “Never mistake a single defeat for a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

23. “When one door closes, another opens. But we often focus so much on the closed door that we don’t see the one that was opened just ahead.” – Alexander Graham Bell

24. “There are two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

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25. “People become really remarkable when they start to think they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret to success.” – Norman Vincent Peale

26. “It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

27. “Start doing what is necessary, do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Asis

28. “Our biggest weakness is giving up… the surest way to succeed is to always try again.” – Thomas Edison

29. “Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

30. “At least three times a day, take a moment and ask yourself: what is really important? Have the wisdom and courage to build your life around your answer.” Harry EmersonFosdick

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31. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

32. “You were born with potential. You were born with kindness and trust, you were born with ideals and dreams, you were born with greatness. You were born with wings! You were not made to crawl. You have wings, just learn how to use them and fly.” – Rumi

33. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

34. “Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine if they are justifiable. If so, correct yourself. Otherwise, keep your business.” – Norman Vincent Peale

35. “Depression is a prison where you are the prisoner and the cruel jailer at the same time.” – Dorothy Rowe

36. “Pain insists on being treated. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but cries out in our pains. It’s his megaphone to wake up to a deaf world.” – CS Lewis

37. “The most admirable people we know are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle and loss, and who have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, kindness and a deep loving concern.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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