Mentalhealth Quotes

"Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life" "I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it" "Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health" "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you" "Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you" "The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness. We must reclaim the truth about our lovability, divinity, and creativity." "Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance." "We feel lonely when we think we are supposed to be in community with others, but we are trapped behind a facade of perfection." "Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." "Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all" "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional" "The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies." "You don't pass or fail at being a person." "The greatest threat to our happiness lies in the failure to appreciate the present moment." "The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise."