“When someone with depression or anxiety or any mental illness for that matter tells you they are having a bad week or month and actually trusts you enough to tell you why, they aren’t doing it because they want you to fix them. They are telling you because they believe you are important enough to them to know why they are not feeling a hundred percent that day. Respect them for doing that. Because they clearly respect you.”
- Nikita Gill
“My father could have been a great comedian but he didn’t believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that: You can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
”
- Jim Carrey
“Imagine if you loved yourself in the same way you loved another person; not caring about the
flaws in the body or inside the mind, seeing the virtues even bigger, supporting, taking care.
That would be a new level of self-esteem and another way to be indestructible.”
- Procure
“My goal in life is to be one of those people who are just light. You see them and you suddenly
feel so warm inside and all you want to do is hug them. And they look at you and smile with
the warmest light in their eyes… and you love them. Maybe not in a romantic way but you just
want to be close to them and you hope some of their light transfers onto you.”
- Warm-human
“Worrying won’t stop bad things from happening. It only stops you from enjoying the good.”
- Naguib Mahfouz
“Your Best” doesn’t mean pushing yourself to your breaking point. “Your best” means the best you can do while being your best you. Get enough sleep, give yourself breaks, listen to your limits. “Your best” is better when you are happy and healthy.
- Unknown
“Just be gentle. Be gentle because we all have worlds inside of ourselves that no one else sees. And some of us, some of our worlds are heavy right now. Some of our worlds are filled with darkened hope, some of our worlds are filled with hurt—they lack the magic they once did. So just be gentle, because you never know which world someone holds inside of themselves. You never know someone’s story.”
- Bianca Sparacino
“I love telling people they look pretty. I love letting them know that I noticed that new thing they did with their hair. Or that brightly colored shirt that makes them shine a little. Or that they’re all dressed up and someone noticed the effort they put. I love that look of genuine happiness, that cute awkward shy smile and their loss of speech. I love how that simple compliment could make someone’s day, and could be the highlight of a bad day. So, if you notice something good, let it out. You don’t know whose day you'll be making with just your words.”
- Nada Shahin
“We cannot change people, we can only love them. Hopefully we love hard enough that they want to do better, not for you, but for themselves.”
- Alex Elle
“Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.”
- YourBigSisNissi
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
- Dave Grohl
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
- J.K. Rowling
“Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living.”
- Bob Marley
“People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.”
- Robert Downey, Jr.
“Being enthusiastic and happy about things you love is more important than being apathetic and snide. You will go so much farther in life spending energy on and talking about something you love than wasting energy on only complaining about or making fun of something you don’t. Don’t focus on mocking others for being genuinely excited about something. Focus on the things and people you love.”
- Mooncactus
“There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very lovable.”
- Yasmin Mogahed
“Please, keep looking. Not for a person, but for your passion, your love, your courage, your
goals, your dreams, your happiness, yourself. Keep looking. Explore yourself before you
explore another. Know your worth, know yourself. Only then will you know what you need
over what you want. You need yourself to become your own.
”
- Anon
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
- Albert Camus
“Don’t invalidate people’s struggles because you’ve been through worse. If someone is tired after working for 5 hours and you worked for 7, it doesn’t mean that they’re not allowed to be tired. It doesn’t mean they can’t feel what they’re feeling just because you’ve had it worse.”
- Samtsk
“Whether you realize it or not, you’re someone’s reason to be better.”
