Destigmatizing Mental Health Quotes & Sayings

I gave you up once. It killed me. it was figuratively but it still killed me. I'm not doin' that shit again. — Kristen Ashley

When a little child is learning to walk or talk, we encourage him and praise him for every tiny improvement he makes. The child beams and eagerly tries to do better. Is this the way you encourage yourself when you are learning something new? Or do you make it harder to learn because you tell yourself that you are stupid or clumsy or a "failure"? — Louise L. Hay

The formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We're not going to fit together."
"We are," he says lowly. "In all ways. — Krista Ritchie

When adults ignore their children's feelings, children come to believe their feelings are not important. When we repeatedly threaten or punish children for a display of emotion, children learn that emotions are dangerous things that need to be held inside and hidden - an invitation to later depression or rage. — Linda Lantieri

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that everything ends. This is both the blessing and the punishment of God upon the foolish tribe that calls itself man. We can embrace the end or we can weep, but the ghost of time closes all doors with a finality that can never be gainsaid. — Kamran Pasha

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control. — Carolyn Jones

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts. — Marc Bekoff

Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself. — Meredith Duran

Perhaps it's time for fire to save another Clan. — Erin Hunter

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about. — Clive Owen

I feel constantly the tension of the quarterly cycles, the drive to produce shareowner value at the cost sometimes of customer value and employee value. [But] if you take equal care of the employees, they will take equal care of the customers and then we will get an equal or better opportunity for our shareowners. — Marilyn C. Nelson

One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health. — Michelle Obama

It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter, — Jamie Dimon