1,781 Quotes About Mental-health

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

As we let go of our need to control, we find freedom.

The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn't spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who's having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit.

You can have flawless skin, a pretty face, a good heart and a sharp mind and people are still not gonna think you're perfect because that's just the way it is. Unless and until you act the way people want you to, they're not gonna like you.

Sometimes, when you're feeling too much pain, and it's unmanageable, you let anger take over .. Not that it's the best way out, but it's kind of easier to control ..

Evan always used to say that it wasn't what you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight.

I didn’t know fear before. I didn’t know how it could shape you. Make you do things you didn’t want to do. I didn’t know how it lives in you like dye, like a stain that will never come out. How it works its way through you until your blood is made of it, until it is fear that pushes oxygen through your veins, fear that pumps your heart, open and shut, open and shut. The fear has no subject. It has no ground. It has only me, and some days it eats me alive.

Varya has had enough therapy to know that she's telling herself stories. She knows her faith--that rituals have power, that thoughts can change outcomes or ward off misfortune--is a magic trick: fiction, perhaps, but necessary for survival. And yet, and yet: Is it a story if you believe it?