Selected Quotes

Brenda Castro

• "Consistency crushes mental illness."
  Dr. Robert Duff
  
• "In the long run, optimism is the best prevention for regret."
  Algorithms to Live By
  
• "Asking for help is not a failure on your part to cope; it's a part of coping."
  Dr. Robert Duff
  
• "I can do something that's important and challenging even if I'm feeling anxious or depressed."
  The Happiness Trap
  
• "It is too often the quality of happiness that you feel at every moment its fragility, while depression seems when you are in it to be a state that will never pass."
  The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon
  
• "We can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography -- and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment."
  This is How, Augusten Burroughs
  
• "You are allowed to have ups and downs. You are allowed to get tired of practicing a certain self-help skill. You are allowed to thrive and not need to actively use a certain skill for a while. The line of progress, especially in mental health, is never straight."
  Dr. Robert Duff
  
• "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
  Winston Churchill
  
• "It is wise to direct your anger toward problems -- not people, to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."
  William Arthur Ward
  
• "Doing what I 'yearn to do' is not necessarily always doing what I'm good at or what I can already do. In order to realize a bigger goal, sometimes I have to do something I'm bad at."
  Junichiro Kagami, "Denpa Kyoushi" anime
  
• "Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping."
• "Confidence is not the prescence of anything at all. Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and, if so, what they're thinking. It's a byproduct of focus."
  This is How, Augusten Burroughs
  
• "Even if that for which we hope never comes to pass, I believe the experience of existing within a place of hope is an essentially, elementally richer and more valuable experience than one in which all hope is entirely depleted."
  This is How, Augusten Burroughs