Mental Health Breakthrough Time Quotes

“Our silence spoke of a million different versions of what we were feeling.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“I walk past these white walls back to my room. The windows down the hallway shine their light and make rectangles on the floor. They angle themselves to the sun, so we never lose track of where the light comes in.”
― Ashley Marie Berry

“I wonder how many moments like this I missed when my mind succumbed to my illness. I want to soak you in now that I can. I want to hear everything you’re saying, and I want to feel everything that you’re not.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“My beliefs are those things I trust and place my confidence in.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Learning requires us to be both reachable and teachable. If I’m unable to reach you, I’m unable to teach you.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Status quo and mediocrity are not your friends, nor are they mine.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Value cannot always be measured by how loud one speaks or the prominence of their stage.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Could it be that the best way to help myself is to stop “Excusing Myself?” Only you and I know the answer.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“I am convinced much of what is viewed as beneficial is far from essential. Yet, everything deemed essential will sooner or later prove to be beneficial.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison. -Steve Maraboli”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“We can too easily become infatuated with the flashing lights, popularity adrenaline and sideline fan and foe voices.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Dreaming is not typically something we do after the remodeling has been completed.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. – John Wayne”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“One of the benefits in making a bold move to initiate and facilitate change in your life is in knowing you are not alone.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“When the sting of pride begins to register mentally or emotionally, it is often met with a deliberate denial intended to camouflage and avoid the guilt.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Our sacred routines have become ruts and our life default settings are rarely ever challenged or changed.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Attempting to minimize or excuse a poor conscious choice that produced unpleasant fruit will not cease mistakenly.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“We must qualify our choices and reinforce the determination to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Take a voluntary look in the mirror before it becomes mandatory. Do it willingly prior to it becoming necessary.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Remove the “cruise control” before you really do lose control.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Some things that appear to be fixed just may need to be broken.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Critical thinking is not always negative thinking, nor should it be quickly confused with a tone of arrogance or condemnation.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“The moment when what is most familiar to you is contested, the safety net of justification comes to the rescue.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Becoming defensive without active evaluation is self-deflating and self-defeating.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“Start be’leaving the old patterns and MINE-sets and boldly step into the new. I believe in you friend.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“IF IT’S NOT BROKE, BREAK IT!”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“MINE-SETS ARE LONELY AND COSTLY.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“We cannot change what we don’t acknowledge. We cannot conquer what we don’t confront. If we don’t deal with it, it is certain to deal with us. This is where many often get derailed, disabled, and eventually defeated.”
― Don Hand, Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices

“You don't have to work to earn money to feed and clothe a body when it's dead. No one can take your dignity away when you're gone.

I wish I could say what shuts down that thought is love for myself as a person deserving of life, or the fear of breaking the hearts of those who love me. Those feelings are present, but they aren't enough to shut it up. What makes me turn it off is another sensation that's always with me - a burning rage, sometimes morphing into total hatred. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Fuck you for making me even consider that for a second. You may not want me to live how I need to live in order to be happy, but I won't give you the satisfaction of no longer having me as a problem. I will never stop being a burden on the state when the state decided to make me one in the first place. If I have to scam, commit crimes, and become a nuisance to the taxpayer, so be it. And I'll never once feel guilty. I can't say I didn't try doing things 'the right way'. If you don't allow me to exist as a person, I have no choice but to exist as a problem.”
― C.R. Houghton

“You don't have to work to earn money to feed and clothe a body when it's dead. No one can take your dignity away when you're gone.

I wish I could say what shuts down that thought is love for myself as a person deserving of life, or the fear of breaking the hearts of those who love me. Those feelings are present, but they aren't enough to shut it up. What makes me turn it off is another sensation that's always with me - a burning rage, sometimes morphing into total hatred. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Fuck you for making me even consider that for a second. You may not want me to live how I need to live in order to be happy, but I won't give you the satisfaction of no longer having me as a problem. I will never stop being a burden on the state when the state decided to make me one in the first place. If I have to scam, commit crimes, and become a nuisance to the taxpayer, so be it. And I'll never once feel guilty. I can't say I didn't try doing things 'the right way'. If you don't allow me to exist as a person, I have no choice but to exist as a problem.”
― C.R. Houghton