There's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life… We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.

Elyn R. Saks

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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Swami Sivananda

I have to remind myself that not everyone else is to blame for how I feel. That my emotions do what they do and it's not just because someone else made me feel that way. I try to stop where I am and look around myself before reacting.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

La paz interior es el resultado de reentrenar tu mente para que procese la vida como es, no como te gustaría que fuera.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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