Quotes

Hi all I'm looking for some quotes for my wall, preferably about strength and overcoming depression and self harm?

I can give you one - Overcoming depression is like being in a dark cave. You cannot see any light and despite this stumble around and hit your head on rocks. People yelling on the outside tell you it's in your head but you can't see anything b/c it's so dark. Eventually you make the choice to just start throwing rocks around in this cave. Eventually one sparks. You stumble around to find this particular rock but may never find it. If you work really hard and with some luck you can find that rock again or find a new one and light your own way out of the cave. Not everyone finds their light rock (flint). Some won't make it out of the cave. But you can always rest assured there are people out there who were given flashlights that will go into the caves hoping to bring someone out with them.

You may have to paraphrase this

Sorry. I only know the one in my signature, and that one is not positive.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall I always get up after I fall and whether I run walk or have to crawl I'll set my goals and achieve them all

That's one of my favorites

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem. First make sure that you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes." ~William Gibson

“If you’re going through Hell, keep going.” ~Winston Churchill

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes." ~ Morris Mandel

I heard this one on the radio. "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. "

I love the one that says, "people cry not because they're weak but because they've been strong for too long"

Here are some that I was able to think of.

Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will' ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If the words you spoke would appear on your skin, would you still be beautiful?

Know your limitations, and then defy them.

Out of suffering emerges the strongest of souls.

"Man's greatest source of unhappiness is expectations." I believe it to be true.

When the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of changing, then we change.

There's a power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

Be kind to unkind people, they need it most.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

The world suffers alot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm gonna kick the darkness, until it bleeds daylight

In other traditions demons are expelled externally. But in my tradition demons are accepted with compassion

You're not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. ~Woodrow Wilson

A bird doesn't sing because it has all the answers, it sings because it has a song. ~ Maya Angelou

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

- Churchill

Do not pray when it rains if you do not pray when the sun shines

- author unknown

Humble yourself before the Lord and he will LIFE YOU UP

-James 4:10

Life sux then you die.
- many people.



Or how about, LOVE yourself - because you deserve that.