“Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?” ―Shannon L. Alder
Quotes
Have Patience
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.” ―Rainer Maria Rilke
Judge…
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” ―Voltaire
At Grave Personal Risk
“…it’s not only the so-called ‘crazy’ people that end up in psychiatric wards. It’s hard-working, funny, generous, considerate, kind, and burnt out people; people who gave too much of themselves at grave personal risk.” -K.J. Redelinghuys
Love Demands Everything
“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you’ll keep faith in me, you’ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.” ―Ann Brashares
Before I Go On…
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible,” come true.” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald
It Is Safe To Assume…
“It is safe to assume that, no matter how it appears, the attempt probably did not come out of the blue. Look for clues. Some possibilities include a family history of mental illness, a history of abuse, unusual or stressful family dynamics, prior diagnosis or evidence of a psychiatric disorder, and/or bizarre behavior long before, or in the days or weeks immediately preceding the crisis. Part of your job is to be a detective, assembling the pieces in the puzzle that is depression.” ―Andrew Slaby
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
From Dust…
“From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happiness Is…
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
I Think The Idea…
“I think the idea of a ‘mental health day’ is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it’s like to have bad mental health. The idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying ‘I don’t want to deal with things today.’ and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide.” ―David Levithan
**I disagree with the majority of this quote. I find it bordering on ignorant, but I can also see how someone else might view it differently than I do. Let me be clear though; mental health days aren’t a form of “privilege”. They are a form of self-care.**
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 