Strength & Resilience

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

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

“I have depression. But I prefer to say 'I battle' depression instead of 'I suffer' with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.”

“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.”

“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.”

“You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery.”

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

“You are not weak for struggling. You are strong for continuing.”

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

“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.”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”