« Doctors know that certain fatigues are the sadness of the body, or depressions in which the body speaks: "The opposite of depression is not happiness or joy: it is vitality... »

« Sadness because the world is sad? The sadness would then be due to the loss of our positive illusions, which Cioran calls our "warm mistakes". We are certainly mistaken in seeing things more beautiful than they are, but it warms our hearts and helps us to live. These errors do exist, many studies have confirmed that psychological well-being feeds on a number of positive distortions of reality: there is a relative "depressive lucidity" - in fact, a lucidity of sadness, because we will see that, in depressive illness, judgment is obscured on the contrary - which often leads to a better evaluation of things as they are. As Paul Valéry remarked: "Seeing clear is seeing black." But these mistakes protect us from the sadness and despair that could give rise to in us the deep contemplation of the world as it is. They make us believe that life is beautiful, the world welcoming, and happiness easy. And all the better, because it gives us the courage to act and paradoxically allows us to realize in part this desire that the world is beautiful and good, and to make that these optimistic prophecies come true. Believing is about changing the world. But efforts must not stop, nor should the illusion cease. Because then the veil is torn. »

« Lucidity: accept your fragility but look further than she does. Put your body in a good mood: help him find calm and energy. Pacify your moods: hold your mind like a sail in the wind. And don't forget that you live in a strange world: think about changing it, too. »