Hope Mental Health Quotes

#1. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#2. It's like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.

Brent Jones

#3. I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

Martin Seligman

#4. Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on
and because of
hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on.

Dana Reeve

#5. If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

Brent Jones

#6. We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

Steven C. Hayes

#7. He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most - losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.

Brent Jones

#8. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

Ellen Bass

#9. But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.

Robert Uttaro

#10. Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.

Edward Bach

#11. I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven't touched the stuff since. And I've discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.

Brent Jones

#12. I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.

Brent Jones

#14. My only hope is that someday-after you have stabilized your mental health-you will take comfort in the fact that I reached out to you after all that happened.

Matthew Quick

#15. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Brent Jones

#16. Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that "only the survivor" can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#17. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.

Brent Jones

#18. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks

Win Quier

#19. Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

Nikki Rosen

#21. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

Brent Jones

#22. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.

Neel Burton

#23. Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

Joanne Greenberg

#24. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

Brent Jones