What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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"One is free from depression when they derive their self worth from the truth of their own feelings, and not from the posession of certain things or qualities." - Alice Miller, The Drama of The Gifted Child

I truly feel depressed because of my lack of things. Specifically money. Money is the things.

It's tough to do this when others derive our self worth from possessions.

Unfortunately, a lot of self-sufficiency quotes fall short when you want other people in your life. Sometimes it just doesn't work out that way.