“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