All Quotes By Tag: Mental-health
“We all live within time. It rules us.”
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“I lied and said I was busy.I was busy;but not in a way most people understand.I was busy taking deeper breaths.I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.I was busy calming a racing heart.I was busy telling myself I am okay.Sometimes, this is my busy -and I will not apologize for it.”
“Guard your heart, mind and time. Those three things will determine the health of everything else in your life.”
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“You aren’t doing “nothing” when you choose to put your well-being first. In fact, this is the key to having everything.”
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“You aren’t doing “nothing” when you choose to put your wellbeing first. In fact, this is the key to having everything.”
“In spite of it all I didn’t want to die.”
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“Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.”
“Varya has had enough therapy to know that she’s telling herself stories. She knows her faith–that rituals have power, that thoughts can change outcomes or ward off misfortune–is a magic trick: fiction, perhaps, but necessary for survival. And yet, and yet: Is it a story if you believe it?”
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“As a child of God, please recognize that God is the strength of your life. Not your husband, children, job, friends, loved ones, or well-wishers. God should be the strength of your life, the source of your joy.”
“We are more than our traumaWe are not our diagnosisWe are more than the worst thingsthat have ever happened to us”
“There is hope in knowing this about postpartum depression: You are not the only one to experience this confining, crazy making inner chaos within yourself.”
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“Do not let the things that try to steal your peace rob you of your joy. Do not give them the permission to scare you into no performance.”
“Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don’t look like they all told me I had to, but I’m healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.”
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“So find your own combination of things to learn and see and be passionate about. Learn from everyone but be your own guidance, and you will find a red-hot feeling in your chest each night, eager for the possibilities of a new day. No one knows your heart as well as you do.”
“Dad would call it my Sisyphus toll. Push a boulder up a hill, pretending it’s okay, and come nightfall it – and I – come crashing down. But he forgets the view each time I make it to the top.”
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