“People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.”
"Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise the awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem."
- Demi Lovato
Awareness
"Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices."
- Demi Lovato
Awareness
"Sitting behind a computer gives people a sense of anonymity, but everyone needs to realize that words-even the ones they write online- have a strong power to hurt people."
- Demi Lovato
Compassion
"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."
- Demi Lovato
Hope
"It’s possible to live well, feel well, and also find happiness with bipolar disorder or any other mental illness [you’re] struggling with."
- Demi Lovato
Hope
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity