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“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”
– Elizabeth Wintzel
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“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss
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“The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it.
A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
– Janet Fitch
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Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all, you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going?
Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness, and to break out with it since that is the way it gets better.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
— Fredrick Douglas
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“The strongest people are those who win battles we know nothing about.”
– Unknown
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“Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”
– Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
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“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— Albus Dumbledore
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“Don’t let your struggle become your identity.”
– Unknown
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“In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
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“The only journey is the journey within.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
— Saint Francis of Assisi