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Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.


Jane McGonigal

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JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
JANE ADDAMS The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
JANE ADDAMS Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN