Demi Lovato

Don’t ever call a girl fat. Even if you’re joking.

You’re not worth the time that this is taking.

I don’t wanna be afraid. I wanna wake up feeling beautiful, today.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks, as long as you’re happy.

Baby, that’s just me.

What’s my hand without your heart to hold?

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I got the mumps. They threw me in a crib so I wouldn’t roll out onto the floor. And there’s a big bay window in my house, and that window stayed perfectly still until that train started to chug. At a certain speed, I could reach up and feel the pane, and that glass pane would vibrate. I said, Doggone, there’s got to be a reason for this. So I go to the kindergarten teacher, and she takes me to the science teacher, and the science teacher takes me to the library and reads it off to me — “This is called resonance.” That was the beginning.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist.

[on depression] This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am on of them. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.

I think it’s important for us to have open conversations about mental health, especially with me being black, because we’ve never had therapists in the black community, we’ve never taken medication. I think it was good that when I had my first complete blackout at age 5, my mom didn’t fully medicate me, because I might not have fully been Ye.

I feel like there’s this glamour… where the woman who has a psychological illness is in fur, laid out on a chaise. Whereas in reality, a woman with mental illness or… is struggling with her psychological wellbeing is often in sweats and in a T-shirt that used to belong to her dad and is covered in food bits.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.