Fran Kirby Quotes

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

It's OK to not be OK.

I want to make it so that it's OK to not be OK.

What the world needs to know is that it's okay to need help.

It's okay not to be okay

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.

I'm not a tortured soul.

I just want to send a message to my fans saying that it's OK to admit that you need help, and it doesn't make you weak.

Sometimes I feel like a million dollars and sometimes I feel terrible. But I've always been open about the fact that it's OK to be human and embrace those feelings.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

I've had to find my sanity.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.