• So, do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More Compassionate? Decide. Breathe in. Breathe out and decide

— Meredith Grey

• I learned that people can easily forget that others are human.

— Prisoner from the Stanford Prison Experiment (1971)

• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

— Osho

• apologize to your body.

maybe, that’s where the healing begins. — starting, nayyirah waheed

• You have to fight through the bad days to get the best days of your life. Relapse and sad days happen, but they do not define you or block you from moving on.
• It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.

— J.K. Rowling

• What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.

— Unknown

• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

— Plato

• We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.

— Courtney Martin

• Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.

— Unknown

• Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

— Sylvia Plath