Recovering From Mental Illness - The Door To Hope Is Always Open
When the World says, "Give up!" Hope whispers, "Try one more time!" ~ Anon
Hope has played such an enormous role in my life journey.
My darkest days all have one thing in common - they all lack hope.
Hope is like a bright light twinkling at the end of a long dark tunnel.
Hope has been my driving force, my determination, the key ingredient behind all good.
No matter how dark and removed from hope you feel, remember that the door to hope is always open.
I ran a series of articles focusing on hope, recovery and mental health over at The Mind Sanctuary last month. I explored the question of, "Should I hope for recovery or should I accept my condition?" with a group of therapists and tried to offer inspiration to help people hope in the darkest of places.
Here are a few inspirational quotes focusing on hope - which hopefully - will offer you hope :-)
"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning." Barbara Kingsolver
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
"Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein.
Finally, here's a lovely blog post I stumbled upon while looking for quotes - hopeonhope.com/?p=223
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Thank you for your insights.... that's similar to the conclusion that I came to. For me the answer was somewhere between the two. Interestingly - all of the therapists who contributed their opinions, offered different insights, but the common thread was that it was important to accept your condition as it is in the moment and to maintain hope too... and often acceptance, which lead to peace of mind - also leads to healing :-)
What a lovely post, very inspiring.
I had not looked at it this way, but I can now see that it is true for me - my darkest days have been the ones without hope. Of course we must accept ourselves as we are, but this doesn't have to be an 'either/or', this has to be combined with hope. Even now in my brighter days I hope for the future, this does not make me greedy or want more than my fair share, it simply reminds me that good is yet to come.
Lovely, simply lovely Tina x
Hi Charlotte - thank you for your comment - it's amazing really isn't it... how powerful such a seemingly simple concept such as hope can be... yet holding on to hope or finding new hope when all seems to be lost, can at times be challenging... your sheer existence and work shines a light of hope over your visitors, I'm honoured if I can throw in a few more beams or rays :-)
wow - so it was. Thank you for that insight - you sent me on a wee exploration of pandoras box and why hope was left in... I came across this really useful paragraph:
"Terrified, Pandora closed the lid. But the gods, feeling a little sorry for what they were about to do, had put, among the evil creatures, a good one whose task was to heal the wounds of the body and soul. This wonderful creature was Hope. When Pandora's box was opened again, Hope managed to fly away and to go around the world and heal the wounds produced by the plagues. But, as she escaped much later, she is always the last one to arrive. That's why, when people are harassed by problems, the only thing that helps them go ahead is hope."
Source: http://www.greek-gods-and-goddesses.com/pandoras-box.html
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