Hope & Recovery

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

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

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

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

“This too shall pass.”

“I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up.”

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

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

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

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

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

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

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”