A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.
Interpretation
Mental illness affects many people, and we either support those with it or experience it ourselves.
Mark Ruffalo's quote highlights the prevalence of mental illness in society, suggesting that it touches everyone in some way—either by loving someone who struggles with it or by experiencing mental health challenges ourselves. This insight calls for empathy and understanding towards those affected by mental illness and serves as a reminder of our interconnectedness in the face of such struggles.
In practice
In a mental health awareness seminar, you could say this quote to highlight the importance of empathy.
It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.
I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."_x000D_ _x000D_ "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"_x000D_ _x000D_ "Yes. I want to ruin you."_x000D_ _x000D_ "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.
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