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Anonymous

Anonymous quotes in this library capture shared emotional truths from people who have walked through similar struggles.

Your illness does not define you. Your strength and courage does.

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J.K. Rowling

Author

J.K. Rowling's words on darkness and light are often used as reminders that difficult seasons can change.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

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Matt Haig

Author

Matt Haig shares lived mental health experience with clarity and warmth, helping readers feel understood.

Mental health problems don't define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but you are not the rain.

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Persian Proverb

Persian Proverb is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

This too shall pass.

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Victor Hugo

Author

Victor Hugo's timeless lines about endurance and dawn remain some of the most quoted messages of hope.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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Mary Anne Radmacher

Author

Mary Anne Radmacher is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

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Juliette Lewis

Actress

Juliette Lewis is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

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A.A. Milne

Author

A.A. Milne is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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Lori Deschene

Founder of Tiny Buddha

Lori Deschene is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

You don't have to be positive all the time. It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn't make you a negative person. It makes you human.

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Winston Churchill

Statesman

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

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Shannon L. Alder

Author

Shannon L. Alder is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When 'I' is replaced by 'we', illness becomes wellness.

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Max Lucado

Author

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You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Martin Luther King Jr. is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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Leonard Cohen

Musician and Poet

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Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Aristotle is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

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John Green

Author

John Green's writing often balances realism and hope, which resonates deeply with people in emotional pain.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.

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Rumi

Poet

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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Theodore Roosevelt

President

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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Atticus

Poet

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Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.

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Dwayne Johnson

Actor

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I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you're not alone.

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Albert Einstein

Physicist

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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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Robert H. Schuller

Author

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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Haemin Sunim

Buddhist Teacher

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You are enough just as you are. Each emotion you feel, everything in your life, everything you do or do not do... where you are and who you are right now is enough.

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Lisa Olivera

Therapist

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Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn't mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.

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Glenn Close

Actress

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What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosopher

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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Linda Poindexter

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One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.

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Khalil Gibran

Poet

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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Alice Morse Earle

Author

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Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.

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Arthur Ashe

Tennis Champion

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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

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Charles Bukowski

Author

Charles Bukowski is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

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Robert Frost

Poet

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The only way out is through.

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Julian Seifter

Physician and Author

Julian Seifter writes about identity and resilience, reminding people that illness does not define who they are.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

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Stephen Covey

Author

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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

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Nido Qubein

Author

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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

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Louisa May Alcott

Author

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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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Mariska Hargitay

Actress

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Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

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C.C. Scott

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The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

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David Mitchell

Author

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You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective – it just means you're human.

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Dan Millman

Author and Speaker

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You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

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S. Ajna

S. Ajna is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

The only journey is the journey within.

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Joubert Botha

Joubert Botha is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.

Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.

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