Awareness Quotes

"Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always."

- A.E. Coppard

"I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure."

- Shay Mitchell

"Bullying is the systematic abuse of power and is defined as aggressive behavior or intentional harm-doing by peers that are carried out repeatedly and involve an imbalance of power. Being bullied is still often wrongly considered as a 'normal rite of passage'… Bullying by peers has been mostly ignored by health professionals but should be considered a significant risk factor and safeguarding issue."

- Dieter Wolke and Suzet Tanya Lereya

"Kids who bully use their power — such as physical strength, availability of embarrassing information, or popularity — to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people. … Bullying can affect everyone — those who are bullied, those who bully, and those who witness bullying. Bullying is linked to many negative outcomes, including impacts on mental health, substance use, and suicide."

- Stopbullying.gov

"Bullies are cruel and possibly irretrievable, but their anger and bullying behavior is often a displacement of their own lack of self-esteem and self-confidence. Mostly, they are lost souls who do not know how to feel comfortable in the world. Their experience has been of failure, rejection, and lack of ability to function well."

- Keith Sullivan, Mark Cleary, and Ginny Sullivan

"The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source, but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do."

- Hunter King

"Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate."

- Roger Ebert

"Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay."

- Josh Gad

"Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world."

- Octavia E. Butler

"I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones."

- Whitney Wolfe Herd

"Everyone experiences bullying at some point - there are always older kids who think it's cool to pick on the younger kids."

- DanTDM

"Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak."

- Maria Konnikova

"Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors."

- Martin Kove

"Bullying happens at all ages and levels."

- Ralph Macchio

"Purple is my favorite color. It makes me think of spring and summer. A purple dress, eating grapes, lilacs - I love purple."

- Angela Yee

"I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination."

- Daniel Bruhl

"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens

"In spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

- Mark Twain

"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment."

- Ellis Peters

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the globe, man would have no more than four years of life to live."

- Albert Einstein

"Did you know that honey bees came over with the Pilgrims? They are not recognized as citizens but corporations are!"

- June Stoyer

"See the world through a heart-shaped lens."

- Hello Kitty

"The pajamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organization called Hello Kitty."

- Martin Millar

"I loved that there were cat symbols everywhere: feline figurines in window storefronts, cat posters, and cat ads. Even the construction signs were cats- pink-and-white Hello Kitty figures hanging off barriers, to keep pedestrians from stumbling into holes in the road."

- Rachel Cohn

"Cancer is a journey, but you walk the road alone. There are many places to stop along the way and get nourishment — you just have to be willing to take it."

- Emily Hollenberg

"It’s okay to ask someone if they’re thinking about suicide."

"If you think someone is struggling, trust your gut. Ask directly and listen."

"By learning the warning signs, you can help #StopSuicide"

"Asking someone directly if they are thinking about suicide will not make them suicidal and can actually help."

"Contrary to popular belief, asking someone directly if they’re thinking about suicide won’t “put the idea in their head.” In fact, people are often relieved to have a #RealConvo about mental health."