Your mental health is just as important as your physical health. You don't have to suffer from anxiety, depression, bipolar, or any other mental health disorder to need a little push every now and again. If you do suffer from one, you know the importance of keeping yourself motivated and on track to prevent a relapse from your disorder. Here are some inspirational and uplifting quotes to help remind you how to just take a step back to breath and enjoy life...
1."You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously" -Sophia Bush
2. "We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all."- Dorothy Day
3. "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." -C.S. Lewis
4. "I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity." - Billy Joel
5. "Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion." - Buddha
6. "Courage isn't having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have strength" -Napoleon Bonaparte
7. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller
8. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein
9. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. "Courage is grace under pressure." -Ernest Hemingway
11. "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." -Confucius
12. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." -Barack Obama
13. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."-Bertrand Russell
14. "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"-Oscar Wilde
15. "A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl." -Stephan Hoeller
Sit back and breath. Life is beautiful. You're beautiful and strong. You can get through this, don't ever give up.
If you or a loved one is having suicidal thoughts please reach out to someone. Call a friend, talk to some family. The number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. You are not alone.
