Audra McDonald Quotes

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The power organisation of Israel gives what they can to fight me, to cause me some harm, damages in health, mind, and they succeed little bit, but I survived and I am now free, but it was very hard - a very difficult time - and I wish no one would suffer what I suffered, and then when I speak to you and try to be human being like everyone.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I've worked hard on myself.

I survived a terrorist attack and got stabbed another four times, literally stabbed in the heart, and somehow, I'm going to be 100 percent OK.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'

Not a day goes past when I don't think how grateful I am I survived, that I recovered and that I feel like a young woman again.

There are always fellow Marines who understand and know what you're going through. Be proud, don't be ashamed, and go out there and tackle the second life you've been given.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.

I consider myself a survivor more than anything else.

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.