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I do agree. I've heard such advice be described as "problem avoidance", particularly because it pushes depression/etc aside, when such problems really DO need to be tackled and dealt with.

It does work for some people though. Just never use it on someone suffering from depression/etc or else it may likely backfire horribly.

Some that have stuck with me recently these:
"It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to."
-Walter Linn

"No man ever wetted clay, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
-Plutarch

"Be as scrupulous in performing a minor commandment as a major one...for you know not the reward it will bring."
-Talmud

"Endurance is patience, concentrated."
-Thomas Carlyle

One that I like the best right now is this one:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw

What goes around comes around. I'm a believer in Karma and that good deeds don't go unrewarded

My own personal quote I created & live by..."The body is just the box that holds the true gift of the soul...Some of us just have bigger packages!"