Upham Quotes

#1. With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203)

Robert Whitaker

#2. Love is no conditions. Love is given, despite hurt or rejection. Love is life and breath and touch. Love is helping someone live.

Misty Upham

#3. If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it ...

Misty Upham

#4. Horrendous cold - at forty below, the Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers agree wholeheartedly. Feels like forty below, they say, staring at each other and echoing their verdict back and forth in the icy silence. Forty below! Stones would freeze in this weather; souls would freeze.

Nancy Huston

#5. ... if only people experienced death earlier, they would know how important it is to show kindness to one another
Gretchen Haight

Emily W. Upham

#6. Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

#7. Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days 'till they bring them to sunshine and light.

Woodrow Wilson

#8. I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

Misty Upham

#9. My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

Misty Upham

#10. Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

#11. If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

David Brooks

#12. Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

#13. Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I'd oblige you. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. All day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

Jack Kerouac

#15. I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they're really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.

Paris Hilton

#16. If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

#17. It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

Misty Upham

#18. Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self ... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

Misty Upham

#19. Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

Misty Upham

#20. I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

Misty Upham

#21. My friends. They help me so much. I would not be here without my friends.

Misty Upham