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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.”
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.”
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.”
Persian Proverb
Persian Proverb is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“This too shall pass.”
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.”
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.'”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Winston Churchill
Statesman
Winston Churchill is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
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.”
Max Lucado
Author
Max Lucado is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are.”
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.”
Leonard Cohen
Musician and Poet
Leonard Cohen is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
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.”
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.”
Rumi
Poet
Rumi is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Theodore Roosevelt
President
Theodore Roosevelt is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Atticus
Poet
Atticus is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.”
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.”
Albert Einstein
Physicist
Albert Einstein is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Robert H. Schuller
Author
Robert H. Schuller is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
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.”
Lisa Olivera
Therapist
Lisa Olivera is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“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.”
Glenn Close
Actress
Glenn Close is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.”
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.”
Linda Poindexter
Linda Poindexter is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“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.”
Khalil Gibran
Poet
Khalil Gibran is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Alice Morse Earle
Author
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“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.”
Arthur Ashe
Tennis Champion
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Charles Bukowski
Author
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“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.”
Robert Frost
Poet
Robert Frost is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“The only way out is through.”
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.”
Stephen Covey
Author
Stephen Covey is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.”
Nido Qubein
Author
Nido Qubein is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
Louisa May Alcott
Author
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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Mariska Hargitay
Actress
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“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.”
C.C. Scott
C.C. Scott is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.”
David Mitchell
Author
David Mitchell is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective – it just means you're human.”
Dan Millman
Author and Speaker
Dan Millman is featured in our quote library for messages that support hope, resilience, and emotional recovery.
“You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”
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.”
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.”
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.”