Looking after your mental health
Inspirational quotes
Here are some inspirational quotes to help lift your mood, give you encouragement and aid your mental health:
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” K. Kastaneda
“Life is but a flash of lightening, yet, there is still time.” N. Kazantzakis
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” M.Proust
“Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.” M.Scott Peck
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” T.Roosevelt
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S. Lewis
“Most human suffering is related to love and loss. The job of therapists is to help people acknowledge, experience, and bear the reality of life, in all its pleasures and heartbreak.” B. Van Der Kolk
“You won’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” D.F.Wallace
“It’s okay to not be okay. Just don’t give up.” Unknown
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start”. N.Qubein
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” M.Hargitay
“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” B.Brown
“The only journey is the journey within.” R.M.Rilke
“Health is a great blessing, but the moment you make health one of your main, direct objects, you start becoming a crank and imagining there is something wrong with you. You are only likely to get health provided you want other things more — food, games, work, fun, open air. In the same way, we shall never save civilization as long as civilization is our main object. We must learn to want something else even more.” C.S.Lewis
Elephant in the Room, poem by Terry Kettering
There’s an elephant in the room.
It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get around it.
Yet we squeeze by with, “How are you?” and “I’m fine,” and a thousand other forms of
trivial chatter. We talk about the weather. We talk about work.
We talk about everything else, except the elephant in the room.
There’s an elephant in the room.
We all know it’s there. We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.
It is constantly on our minds. For, you see, it is a very large elephant.
It has hurt us all.
But we don’t talk about the elephant in the room.
Oh, please say his (her) name.
Oh, please say his (her) name again.
Oh, please, let’s talk about the elephant in the room.
For if we talk about his (her) death, perhaps we can talk about his (her) life.
Can I say his (her) name to you and not have you look away?
For if I cannot, then you are leaving me….
Alone….
In a room….
With an elephant.
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