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Day by day, enduring his worst, my core rooted in the beautiful earth began wavering.

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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.