Facing, learning from and accepting mental illness

[living-with-bipolar]

The Darkest Night

When in the harrowing night, follow the light. The love of those who have passed, holding you tight.

[living-with-bipolar]

All is well.

And all will be well

P.B.

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You can’t push the river.

[living-with-bipolar]

Time and again I have searched for you, not knowing that it was me I needed to find.

Betty MacDonald

[thehopefulquotes]

“One day someone is going to hug you so tight, that all of your broken pieces will stick back together.”

— Unknown

[living-with-bipolar]

Bloom where you are planted

[living-with-bipolar]

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.

Unknown

[living-with-bipolar]

We are stardust

We are golden

And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden

Joni Mitchell

[thepersonalquotes]

[living-with-bipolar]

I can only please one person a day. Today I choose me.

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Your pretty fucking awesome. Keep that shit up.

[living-with-bipolar]

Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. -- Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh

[living-with-bipolar]

You, yourself, as much as anybody, in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

[living-with-bipolar]

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Carl Jung

[living-with-bipolar]

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[living-with-bipolar]

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end up starving the best part of the mind.

J.B. Yeats

[living-with-bipolar]

Life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against risk one ends up shutting out life itself.

Kenneth s. Davis