Seeking Help Quotes

• There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Suffering, Bipolar, Needs

  "Catherine Zeta-Jones: 'There Is No Need to Suffer Silently'". People Magazine Interview, people.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Struggle, Men

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• Let me tell you right now, you are not alone. Seeking help requires incredible strength and courage. The most powerful weapon you have against bullying is your voice.

  Derek Hough

  Bullying, Powerful, Voice

  "Derek Hough Opens Up About Bullying Past: They Had 'A Gun to My Head'" by Stephanie Webber, www.usmagazine.com. October 18, 2014.

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• The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

  Shlomo Breznitz

  Procrastination, Denial, Might

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• When someone comes to me seeking help I want to learn everything I can about them. I'm interested in their physical, emotional, interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, and spiritual aspects of their well-being. I want to know about their hopes and dreams as well as their stresses, fears, and challenges.

  Jed Diamond

  Dream, Spiritual, Stress

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'd like to see a world where, if a teenager fears she's seeing/hearing things, she feels as comfortable seeking help as she would if she found a lump on her leg.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Teenager, Hearing Things, World

  "Secrets Blog Tour: Interview with Kelley Armstrong & Giveaway". Interview with Melissa Montovani, www.yabookshelf.com. October 1, 2015.

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• People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

  Hugh Laurie

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Life, Kindness, Two

  'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'

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• Patience is seeking help only from Allah.

  Dhul-Nun al-Misri

  Helping, Seeking

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• Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

  John von Neumann

  Science, Simple, Understanding

  Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)

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• Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Helping, Sin, Abstinence

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• I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

  Marguerite Young

  Time, Fun, Years

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• No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

  Kate Middleton

  Children, Emotional, Support

  "Kate Middleton Has An Empowering Message For Those Facing Mental Health Stigma" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2015.

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• If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Bipolar, Suffering, Needs

  "Catherine Zeta-Jones: 'There Is No Need to Suffer Silently'". People Interview, people.com. April 20, 2011.

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• When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Hysteria, Helping, Symptoms

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