Awareness Quotes

"The more you care for your mental health, the more you realize how unnecessary and superficial other things are."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Mental health is not just the absence of mental illness. It’s not just the absence of pain. It’s emotional, physical, and social well-being."

- Meghan McCain

"The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW."

- Shannon L. Alder

"No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness."

- Elyn R. Saks

"Things not to say to someone with mental illness: Ignore it. Forget about it. Fight it. You are better than this. You are over thinking."

- Nitya Prakash

"All stress, anxiety, depression, is caused when we ignore who we are, and start living to please others."

- Paulo Coelho

"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."

- Jane Austen

"Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so."

- Lemony Snicket

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."

- Christina Rossetti

"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."

- Lewis Grizzard

"May is green and pink and red."

- Richard L. Ratliff

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."

- Anne Bradstreet

"May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses."

- Ellen Jackson

"Mental health can be nasty but there is light at the end of the tunnel!"

- Kerry Katona

"After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner."

- Bob Beauprez

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

- Walt Whitman

"The way they leave tells you everything."

- Rupi Kaur

"Mental health is not a luxury, it’s a necessity."

- Unknown

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."

"May is the time when everything awakens and springs into action."

"May is the time when the flowers bloom, the birds sing, and the world awakens from its winter slumber."

"It takes darkness to be aware of the light."

- Unknown

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle"

"A light is still a light even though the blind man cannot see it"

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

"Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who are patient."

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind."

"The people that are quick to walk away are the ones that never intended to stay."

"Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows."