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Quotes for when you're feeling down
Some days getting dressed is the list. It's past midday, there's no particular reason for any of it, and the messages can wait because answering them feels like lifting something. You cancelled the plans. Now you feel bad about cancelling them.
On days like this, people mention matching what they ask of themselves to the energy they have. One small thing, noticed. They also talk about dropping the guilt, since a standard built for good weeks can make every low day look like a failure.
These lines are quiet and they ask very little. They won't tell you to cheer up. They're written to read as ordinary to anyone glancing at your phone. A quote can't treat anything, and if this feels bigger than a low day, it's worth telling someone.
The moments
- Waking with no energy and no reason
- Still in bed past midday
- Looking at the list and not being able to start
- Friends' updates, and feeling behind
- Cancelling, then feeling bad about cancelling
- Getting dressed as the one thing done today
- Evening, relieved it's over, and slightly guilty about that
What people say helps
- Matching the day's tasks to the energy they had
- Letting go of the guilt on low days
- Noticing one small thing that got done
- Knowing when it was more than a low day, and telling someone
“Just cheer up”, “think positive” and “others have it worse” all suggest this is a choice you're getting wrong.
Quill Originals are written by Quill. Popular sayings are widely repeated lines with no name attached. Lines with a name are checked word for word against public-domain books.
Quill Originals
You've been here before and you know where the kettle is.
Getting dressed was the job today, and you did it.
Today's mood doesn't get a vote on the big questions.
Feeling nothing is hard to explain to people. You don't have to explain it.
It's allowed to be a bad day with nothing wrong in it.
A heart on their message says enough for now.
The same show for the fifth time. It knows what you need.
You can want company and not want to talk. Both are real.
The floor can be seen in places. Good enough.
One thing, then see.
Teeth can happen after lunch.
Sorry, can't make it tonight is a complete message.
You replied to one message. On a day like this that's real.
Beans on toast is dinner.
Tell them you're having a quiet one. That's a whole sentence.
Getting up late is getting up.
Lying on the sofa instead of the bed is a change of scene.
Toast counts as breakfast, at any hour.
Take the softer blanket.
The guilt about cancelling is heavier than the cancelling.
Hair unbrushed, day still valid.
Glad it's evening? Plenty of people are.
Popular sayings
It's only a bad day, not a bad life.
Reach out.
Forward is a pace.
From the books
Do not wait for life to be picturesque, but try and see life under picturesque conditions.
Read the passage around this line
Do not wait for life to be picturesque, but try and see life under picturesque conditions. These conditions you can create for yourself in your studio, for they are merely conditions of light. In nature, you must wait for them, watch for them, choose them; and, if you wait and watch, come they will.
You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Read the passage around this line
“Come, come; this is all an effusion of immediate want of spirits, Edward. You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. Your mother will secure to you, in time, that independence you are so anxious for; it is her duty, and it will, it must ere long become her happiness to prevent your whole youth from being wasted in discontent. How much may not a few months do?”
The past may have been hard, sad, or wrong,—but it is over.
Read the passage around this line
Nervous prostration is seldom the result of present trouble or work, but of work and trouble anticipated. Mental exhaustion comes to those who look ahead, and climb mountains before reaching them. Resolutely build a wall about to-day, and live within the inclosure. The past may have been hard, sad, or wrong,—but it is over.
Love lightens the burden and cheers the way.
Sorrow and desolation have their songs, as well as joy and peace.
Cheerfulness gives elasticity to the spirit.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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