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The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression
Yong Kang Chan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Pretending to be passionate when we are truly depressed doesn’t help. Numbing our feelings only makes things worse. Depression taught me to experience all of my feelings and not push them aside.”
“Intuition has always been my greatest gift. It has provided me with many ideas for my creative work and saved me from a lot of trouble. It’s just that when I feel stressed and desperate, I forget this gift.”
“Empathy is my good friend, but she doesn’t allow me to be angry.”
“Blocking our feelings and pretending they aren’t there doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
“Anger tried to help me feel better about myself by pushing the blame onto someone else.”
“Life isn’t about being strong or pretending we are strong to impress others. It takes courage to be authentic with our feelings and acknowledge that real strength comes from recognizing our moments of weakness.”
“I mistakenly believed that I was my emotions.”
“Telling a person who is depressed to have positive thoughts is the same as telling a sick person not to be sick. It doesn’t work.”
“Someone can take away my job, but they can only take away my courage if I let them.”
“I had signed up for a lot of courses, but the biggest teacher is life. Perhaps we need to die multiple times in order to realize the true meaning of life. I’m grateful I died that day.”
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