What Inspires Us
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You can do anything but not everything.”
— David Allen
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Everybody is broken in some way. We are always trying to find somebody whose broken pieces fit with our broken pieces and something whole emerges.”
— Bruce Springsteen
“There is no cure for the human condition.”
— Dr. Jeff Ball
“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic.”
— Dr. Thomaz Szaz
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.”
— Harlan Coben
“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”
— Magic Johnson
"Psychiatry not only fails to address emotional and relationship problems, but actually reinforces them, for lack of a whole-person, whole-system way of understanding them. By using a medical label to ‘Rescue’ people, it takes responsibility away from them, encouraging them to rely on an external solution which is rarely forthcoming, and then blaming them for their continuing difficulties and powerlessness. The personal meaning of people’s distressing experiences and the psychological and social origins of their difficulties are obscured by turning them into the ‘symptoms’ of an ‘illness’ located within one individual; the resulting treatment barrier keeps both patients and staff stuck and undermines alternative approaches such as psychotherapy.”
— Dr. Lucy Johnstone
“The pathological basis of almost all mental disorders remains as unknown today as it was in 1886—unsurprising, given that the brain turns out to be one of the most complex objects in the universe. Even as psychiatrists prescribe a widening variety of treatments, none of them can say exactly why any of these biological therapies work.”
— Dr. Lucy Johnstone