Here are some thought provoking quotes to give you some solace...
Quotes have a remarkable ability to inspire, motivate, and change our mood and life. With just a few well-chosen words, they can shift our perspective, uplift our spirits, and provide the encouragement we need to overcome challenges. Quotes often distill profound wisdom and experiences into concise, memorable messages that resonate deeply with us. They serve as reminders of our values, aspirations, and the potential for growth and transformation. Whether it’s a motivational quote that sparks action, an inspiring quote that provides comfort, or a thoughtful quote that prompts reflection, the power of words can significantly impact our mental and emotional well-being.
When Demotivated:
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela
- “Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn’t have it in the beginning.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” Steve Jobs
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” Oscar Wilde
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” Tony Robbins
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” Les Brown
- “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” Aristotle
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill
- “I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up.” Anonymous
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Fredrick Douglass
- “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” Joubert Botha
When Depressed:
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela
- If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
- If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. Oprah Winfrey
- If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. James Cameron
- When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle
- You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. Dr. Seuss
- “Life is a tragedy when seen in closeup, but a comedy in longshot.”Chalie Chaplin
- “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” Charles Dickens
- “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” Charles Swindoll
- “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”― Juliette Lewis
- “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
- “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an allconsuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of.
- They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.” ― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
- “I don’t regret opening up about what I went through [with depression], because, it sounds really cliché, but I have had women come up to me and say, ‘It meant so much to me.’ It means so much when you realize that someone was having a really hard time and feeling shame and was trying to hide this whole thing.” — Winona Ryder
- “‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.” — Molly Bahr, LMHC
- “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
- “The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.” — Jonathan Harnisch
- “So many people look at [my depression] as me being ungrateful, but that is not it — I can’t help it. There’s not much that I’m closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don’t have to be something they’re not or feel like they have to fake happy. There’s nothing worse than being fake happy.” — Miley Cyrus
- “…if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.” — Daniel Goleman
- “As you reflect back on the previous weeks, months or year, look for moments you can celebrate too. There will be some, even if you have to look a little harder.” — Emily Coxhead
When anxious/ worried/ tensed:
- Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. Babe Ruth
- There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Gandhi
- “Feelings don’t try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You’re responsible for its consequences, you’re responsible for treating it. But…you’re not responsible for causing it. You’re not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
- “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strengthcarrying two days at once. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom
- “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” — Grenville Kleiser
- “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” — Walter Anderson
- “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.” — Karen Salmansohn
- “Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language.” — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
- “Don’t believe everything you think.” — Unknown
- “This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.― Cammie McGovern
- The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost
Feeling emotional cycling:
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
- “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” Zig Ziglar
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates
- “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 the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” — Elisabeth KüblerRoss
- “When I don’t pay attention to my feelings, I tend to put up with situations and people longer than I should.” — Allyson Dinneen
- “‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.” — Molly Bahr, LMHC
- “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. — Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
- “We are not our trauma. We are not our brain chemistry. That’s part of who we are, but we’re so much more than that.” ― Sam J. Miller
- “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 you are not the rain.” — Matt Haig
Feeling confused:
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” Oscar Wilde
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein
- You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky
- Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford
- I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Rosa Parks
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
- “You become what you believe.” Oprah Winfrey
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” Amelia Earhart
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank
- “Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”― Theodore Kaczynski
- “The gentlest reminder: You might not need to read another selfhelp book, attend another training, or bookmark another Instagram post as much as you need to listen to, trust, and practice what you already know. What if the answer you’re looking for is actually within you already?” — Lisa Olivera
Feeling failed/ embarrassed/ foolish:
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon
- “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.” Gurbaksh Chahal
- “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” Oprah Winfrey
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
- “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln
- “I failed my way to success.” Thomas Edison
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” John D. Rockefeller
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” Colin R. Davis
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville
- The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. Maya Angelou
- I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney
- “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” Steev Jobs
- If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. Steve Jobs
- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
- Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill
- The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. Barack Obama
- “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” Estee Lauder
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley
- “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” Albert Einstein
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” John Wooden
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Jim Rohn
- “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” Vince Lombardi
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” George Addair
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” Norman Vaughan
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” Beverly Sills
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” Benjamin Franklin
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightingale
To live the fullest:
- In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ”Mark Twain
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
- “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” Albert Einstein
- “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” John Wooden
- “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” D. H. Lawrence
- The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I cannot stand the words ‘Get over it’. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK.” — Beau Taplin
- “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankal
- “The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” Dalai Lama
- “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” -Charlie Chaplin-
General ones!:
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
- “Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.” — Russ Harris
- “And still, I rise.” — Maya Angelou
- “Be dedicated to change the way in which people see mental illness at all levels of society. If not for yourself, advocate for those who are struggling in silence.” — Germany Kent
- “Anyone can be affected, despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?” — Kristen Bell
- “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman
- “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen
- “Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language.” — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
- “I think it’s really important to take the stigma away from mental health… My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth.” —Kerry Washington, from HuffPost
- “It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” — Aisha Mirza
- “Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” — Noam Shpancer, PhD
- “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau
- “You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” — Julian Seifter
- “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
- “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” — Brené Brown
- “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” — Lemony Snicket
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh
- “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
- “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green
- “I cannot stand the words ‘Get over it’. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK.” — Beau Taplin
- “Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia
- “My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. — Emery Lord
- “There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.” — Fred Rogers
- “‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.” — Molly Bahr, LMHC
- “You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.” — Lori Deschene
- “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
- “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha
- “This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.― Cammie McGovern
- “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” — Stephen Chbosky
- “You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are. — Max Lucado
- “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. — Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
- Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health — take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself. – Beyoncé, from an Elle interview
- The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost
- “We are not our trauma. We are not our brain chemistry. That’s part of who we are, but we’re so much more than that.” ― Sam J. Miller
- “Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.” — Mel Robbins
- “If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” — Russell Wilson
- “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 you are not the rain.” — Matt Haig
- “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close
- “Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” – Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha
- “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “Sometimes self care is exercise and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pajamas. Whatever soothes your soul.” — Nanea Hoffman
- “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 the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross-