#press

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternal #expressive #gifted #heart #himself

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me. ↗

— Billy Carter

#i tried #live #made #me #press

Not only are poor, unemployed, less will-educated and non-white people more likely to become depressed, but they are also least likely to benefit from treatment by either antidepressants or psychotherapy. That is why combating depression requires more than merely providing effective treatment for those who are already suffering from it. We also need the change the social conditions - such a racism, unemployment, poverty, unaffordable housing, and lack of adequate education - that put people at increased risk of becoming depressed. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#depression #social-conditions #change

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#bruce lee #depressed #everything #got #i

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#america #choice #choose #conformity #nothing

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #does #even #everything #express

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ↗

— Confucius

#government #more #oppressive #than #tiger

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#must #office #pressure #terrible

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. ↗

— Ville Valo

#away #been #best #cathartic #everyday