“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.” ― A.J. Cronin
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” ― Jon Bon Jovi
“It is our choices that show what we really are, far more than our abilities.” ― J.K. Rowling
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” ― Charles Bukowski
“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.” ― Linda Poindexter
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Recovery is not one and done. It is a lifelong journey that takes place one day, one step at a time.” ― Unknown
“Take your time healing, as long as you want. Nobody else knows what you’ve been through. How could they know how long it will take to heal you?” ― Abertoli
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love." - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo
"I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life." - Jonathan Harnisch
"What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with." - Pink
"In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." - Publilius Syrus
"What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with." - Pink
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create." - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time." - Herbert Bayard Swope
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama XIV
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!" - Audrey Hepburn
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected." - Laverne Cox
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." - Maya Angelou
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton
"Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous." - Abd El-Kader
"Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN." - Matt Haig
"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live." - Elbert Hubbard
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Will Durant
"A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain." - Dr. John Demartini
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein
"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
"What we think, we become." - Buddha
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." - Elizabeth Kubler Ross
"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese Proverb
"Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there." - Marcus Washling
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T Washington
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Whoopi Goldberg
"You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone." - Roy T. Bennett
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"Everyone shines given the right light." - Susan Cain
"Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them." - Joubert Botha
"Those who wish to sing always find a song." - Swedish Proverb
"Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone." - Lisa Olivera
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Amy March, from Little Women
"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear." - Paulo Coelho
"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation." - Glenn Close
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." - Oprah Winfrey
"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal." - Steve Maraboli
"To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on." - Dave Pelzer
"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou
"Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health." - Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
"Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself." - Greek Proverb
"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others." - Christopher Germer
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not." - Elyn R. Saks
"I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it." - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
"Good words are a honeycomb, and their sweetness is a healing of the soul." - Proverbs 16:24
"It's no bad thing to celebrate a simple life." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Do not worry about what comes next; you will discover it when it comes." - St. Isaac the Syrian
"The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is, you don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need." - Demi Lovato
"You are never strong enough that you don't need help." - Cesar Chavez
"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary." - Fred Rogers
"What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you." - Paulo Coelho
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts." - Leo Tolstoy
"As long as we pay attention to the negative sides of those we meet, we will not find peace or quiet." - Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
"A heart that loves is always young." - Greek Proverb
"Be more interested in finding the best way, not just in having it your way." - John Wooden
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you go; they merely determine where you start." - Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
"It's better to accept the uncertainty that comes with realizing you have a problem than pretend you don't." - Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller "Mind Your Mindset"
"Your now is not your forever." - John Green
"Discover the joy of giving." - Mark Victor Hansen
"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue." - Viktor E. Frankl
"My self-care serves others because when I feel good, and calm, and productive, and hopeful, I have so much more to give." - Molly Sabourin
"When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger." - Immaculée Ilibagiza
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Francis of Assisi
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of." - Jim Rohn
"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional." - John C. Maxwell
"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step."
- Naeem Callaway
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." - Saadi
"Walk gently in the lives of others. Not all wounds are visible." - Unknown
"When it hurts, observe. Life is trying to teach you something." - Anita Krizzan
"Whatever good things we build, end up building us." - Jim Rohn
"If you do not hope, you will not find out what is beyond your hopes." - St. Clement of Alexandria
"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice." - Simon Sinek
"Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views." - George Sand
"Human beings have enormous resilience." - Muhammad Yunus
"A [person] cannot correct [themselves] all of a sudden… it is like pulling a barge - pull, pull, and let go, let go! Not all at once, but little by little." - Elder Ambrose of Optina
"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind." - Robin Williams
"There is no greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life." - Mary Rose McGeady
"Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do." - Heather King
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
"Good habits are balanced habits." - Abraham Low, MD
"Careless mind, double work." - Greek Proverb
"Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people." - Enes Freedom
"Reconciliation always brings a springtime to the soul." - Brother Roger; Founder of the Taizé Community
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." - Nelson Mandela
"Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far." - Jodi Picoult
"Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton
"Every moment offers an opportunity to be grateful. When we choose to be grateful, our soul glows." - Imuetinyan Ugiagbe
"Heal so that you can hear what is being said without the filter of your wounds." - Dr. Thema Bryant, PhD
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates
"The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened." - Philip Sidney
"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind." - Henri Frederic Amiel
"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Moliere
"Our lives and relationships are better, brighter, and more fun when we remember to play, when we inject some adventure." - Drs. Julie & John Gottman
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction." - Alvin Toffler
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes
"Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds." - Norman Vincent Peale
"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall." - C.S. Lewis
"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle." - Charles Glassman
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce
"When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure." - Viktor Frankl
"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time." - Mason Cooley
"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle." - Charles Glassman
"The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life, and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in YOU too. The people that love you, simply for being YOU. The once in a lifetime kind of people." - Anonymous
"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." - Desmond Tutu
"The holidays can be a lonely time for some. The greatest gift you can give is your time, your attention, your concern, and your love." - Unknown
"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? -- These are the real questions." - Henri Nouwen
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis
"But people are oceans,” she shrugged. “You cannot know them by their surface." - Beau Taplin
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Marcus Cicero
"Feelings are experienced or not, are present or absent, but never true or false." - Abraham Low, MD; “Mental Health Through Will Training” p. 118
"Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all." - Erik Erikson
"Suicide is so taboo, and the hush is toxic. It really makes healing harder" - Marlie Rowell
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." - Colin Powell
"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't." - John Green
"Take a deep breath. Get in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second." - Greg McKeown
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"In our rush to fix our problems, we neglect to allow space and time for our wounds to teach us." - Richard Rohr
"I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder." - Muhammad Ali
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