Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

  • “Because wherever I sat — on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok — I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
     Sylvia Plath

  • “Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.”
     Shannon Purser

  • “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

  • “The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
     Stefan Molyneux

  • “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

  • “…we live in a world where if you break your arm, everyone runs over to sign your cast, but if you tell people you’re depressed, everyone runs the other way. That’s the stigma. We are so… accepting of any body part breaking down, other than our brains. And that’s ignorance. That’s pure ignorance. And that ignorance has created a world that doesn’t understand depression, that doesn’t understand mental health.”
     Kevin Breel

  • “What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.”
     Jasmine Warga

  • “The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”
     William Styron

  • “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

  • “There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.”
     Andrew Solomon

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