Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by [@$$h̦les]. РNotorious d.e.b., @debihope

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. – Montaigne

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. – Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”