Uplifting quotes & Inspiring Thoughts

'When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.'

??Depression is not beautiful poetry and sympathy from loved ones and a beautiful girl crying in the middle of the night while her boyfriend holds her and whispers ?I love you? over and over again. 
Depression is not dead flowers and lana del rey music and dark eyeliner and lipstick smearing your face as you cry in a dirty bathtub smeared with your own blood. 
Depression is a foul taste in your mouth and smell in your room because you don?t care enough to take a shower or brush your teeth. 
Depression is longing for the days you cry because feeling something is better than feeling nothing and being sad is better than the blunt anxiety that is a constant in the back of your mind. 
Depression is watching your friends slip away because you don?t care enough to call them or see them and in turn feeling lonely and ignored because it feels like they don?t care enough to call you or see you. 
Depression is watching your grades plunge because how can you care about them when you don?t even care if you live or die?
Depression is having your teachers and your parents call you lazy and unmotivated and a deadbeat because of these grades and because your illness is so blind to them you have trouble convincing even yourself that it exists. 
Depression is your back aching from staying in bed for hours a day, hoping you can live out your life in bed until you don?t have to live anymore. 
Depression is staying up until five a.m. watching tv because if you turn everything off you will be alone with your thoughts and there is nothing on earth worse than that. 
Depression is groaning in disappointment and anxiety when you wake up the next morning. 
Depression is praying yet again that night that you don?t wake up. 
Depression is not romantic. It is not beautiful. It is disgusting, empty, ugly. It is a pain so deep and long lasting you forget how you ever were without it.? In honour of robin Williams?
? Anonymous

?Growing up, I wish I hadn?t tried so hard to fit in. I?d tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it?s beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It?s tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.?
? Shay Mitchell

?Growing up, I wish I hadn?t tried so hard to fit in. I?d tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it?s beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It?s tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.?
? Shay Mitchell

?We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty?
? Maya Angelou

?Ultimately, you need to take responsibility for making the decision that brings peace to your heart. If you make a mistake, it?s not the end of the world. But being true to your heart is the key to your happiness?
? ~ Anon (monastic)

?Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home? it?s your responsibility to love it, or change it.?
? Chuck Palahniuk

?Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It?s not what they?re not doing or should be doing that?s the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is ?out there,? stop yourself. That thought is the problem.?
? Stephen Covey

?People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how you made them feel.?
? Maya Angelou

?We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend?
? Robert Louis Stevenson