#cognition

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#cognition #depression #future #issues #judgment

One thing about a skunk - once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#recognition #richelle #richelle-goodrich #skunk #stink

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #glow #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought. ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#recognition #thought-provoking-humourous #thoughts #introspection

Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased ↗

— ArLeaBelle

#happiness-positive-outlook #humor #inspirational #pleasure-of-recognition #pleasures-of-life

Many people do not fall in love; they fall in love with the idea of themselves being in love. They never see the other person. I don't ask for much; I only ask to be seen. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-love #inspirational-quotes #love #recognition #recognizing-love

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#being #could #deal #draw #elementary

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. ↗

— Clive Bell

#convince #effective #fundamental #good #liberty

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#got #great #i #i think #industry

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#going #includes #maturity #ourselves #produce