Mental Health Month 2010: Live Your Life Well


Since 1949, May has been designated as Mental Health Month. This year's theme is Live Your Life Well, which "challenges us to promote health and wellness in homes, communities, schools, and inform those who don't believe it's attainable."

Mental Health America's Live Your Life Well public education campaign was created to help people enhance their well-being, and encourage people to take care of their mental health in times of stress and personal challenge.

Here are some links to get you started:

Additional Help:
Suicide Prevention Resources
Self-Harm Resources
Sexual Abuse Resources
Domestic Abuse/Violence Resources
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Inspirational Eating Disorder Recovery Quotes: Attitude


Could we change our attitude, we should not only
see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
Bill Meyer

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Joe Clark

He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
Author Unknown

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Your heart is a sun -
Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...
Terri Guillemets

For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
Joey Tolbert

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey

So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.
The Eagles

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.
Unknown

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
Henry Moore

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
William James

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Robert Brault

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr

I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
Unknown

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicholas Chamfort

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Dr. Seuss

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.
Walt Whitman

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire

Whenever you fall, pick something up.
Oswald Avery

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy.
Author Unknown

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle

Where hope grows, miracles blossom.
Elna Rae

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward

This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend.
Terri Guillemets

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott

The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.
Unknown

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Barbara Bloom

I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue.
Author Unknown

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.
Glorie Abelhas

We all have our limitations, but when we give in to our critics, we also have theirs.
Robert Brault

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Betty Smith

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz.
Ronald Spark

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
Robert Brault

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
Mignon McLaughlin


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