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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of chocolates.
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.
No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.
At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.
I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
No one much wants to be belittled, but we tolerate slurs surprisingly often for ourselves; for our lionised children, we demand freedom from insult.
I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.
I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.
A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
Britain's withdrawal from the E.U., like Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, is based on a false belief in self-reliance.
Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better than to be young.
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.