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Because nobody is coming, the rescue boats aren’t on the way, and your prince charming isn’t going to come.

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You gotta stay standing—you gotta face the storms.

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some truths are harder to swallow.

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Maybe the point of surviving is just that we survive together. 

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The pieces on the ground won’t fit together as nicely as you remembered; no matter how hard you try.

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You can’t punish yourself forever for your mistakes. You shouldn’t punish yourself forever for your mistakes, so quit beating yourself up for what you could have done better.

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Real love, consuming and hungry and wild and tender, lasts beyond the boundaries of a relationship.

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Sometimes love is not enough to keep a relationship together. Do not let this make you become bitter.

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Aching. Miserable. Exhausted. Despondent. Hazy. Misunderstood. Blue. All of the above (and more) can be used to describe the complicated world that it is to live with clinical depression.

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Make no mistake that this is just the beginning. Maybe where you are right now is at the bottom of the pit, but it only marks the beginning of an uprising, a roar in the silence, a bolt of thunder that strikes the sky.