- “There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.” ― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
- How to help people struggling with their mental health: Learn about mental health, go to visit them, give practical support, ask other people to help, listen to them, give them a hug, celebrate their small steps. Mental Health Notes
- “Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.” ― Helen Reddy
- A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. Charlotte Brontë
- “Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
- “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
- Numb the dark and you numb the light. Brené Brown (Daring Greatly)
- “In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.” ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
- “And something strange happened. Energy coursed through his body making it seem lighter. Air flowed into his lungs in a cool, sweet stream.” ― H.W. Fan, Mind Body Control
- “Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole–it’s so dense that there’s no room for light, but that doesn’t mean it can’t still suck me in.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
- This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time. Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
- “Optimism is an effort.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing them all, our kith and kin.” ― Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- “You’re only as good as you’re next thought of yourself.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- In the flame of awareness all problems are finally resolved. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- What if we weren’t so hurried to find the answers? What if it was safe to hang out in the unknown? To stumble around in the dark, curious as to what we might find, comfortable in not having it all sorted out. What would we discover about ourselves? About each other? About life? Jason Garner
- Going through anxiety or depression or any other psychological condition doesn’t make you unlovable – it makes you human. Seth J. Gillihan (See also: Yes, You Are Lovable With Depression and Anxiety, webmd.com)
- “Don’t underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life’s purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.” ― Saad Salman
- Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. Osho
- “Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.” ― D. Antoinette Foy
- “Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.” ― D. Antoinette Foy
- Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Guidance counselors always love to say, ‘Just think positively,’ but that’s impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.” ― Jasmine Warga
- “It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.” ― Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
- “Being alive does not necessarily lead to feeling alive.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- This pain you are feeling is not a pathology. It’s not crazy. It is a signal that your natural psychological needs are not being met. It is a form of grief – for yourself, and for the culture you live in going so wrong. I know how much it hurts. I know how deeply it cuts you. But you need to listen to this signal. We all need to listen to the people around us sending out this signal. It is telling you what is going wrong. It is telling you that you need to be connected in so many deep and stirring ways that you aren’t yet – but you can be, one day. Johann Hari
- “Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECTMy words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect.So be-careful what you send out!” ― Allan Rufus, The Master’s Sacred Knowledge
- “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables