31 Quotes About World Suicide Prevention Day

The world celebrated World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, 2016. On this day, people around the world share their stories of how suicide has affected them and their loved ones. They help other people who may be struggling with suicidal thoughts or depression to see that there is hope and a better way. World Suicide Prevention Day is a good opportunity to reignite the light of life in those who are suicidal and those who love them.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. Aberjhani
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man. Aberjhani
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne...
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace. Aberjhani
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes...
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew. Aberjhani
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. Aberjhani
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Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed. Aberjhani
Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect...
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. Aberjhani
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of...
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. Aberjhani
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we...
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. Aberjhani
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate. Aberjhani
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned...
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty. Aberjhani
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got...
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too. Aberjhani
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly...
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived. Aberjhani
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. Aberjhani
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. Aberjhani
Your pain is a school unto itself—— and your joy...
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Your pain is a school unto itself—— and your joy a lovely temple. Aberjhani
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Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so. Aberjhani
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century. Aberjhani
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed? Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free? Aberjhani
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes...
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. Aberjhani
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. Aberjhani
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The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything. Aberjhani
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was. Aberjhani
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Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid——boldly angelic. Aberjhani
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Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope. Aberjhani
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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself. Aberjhani
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety—— Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour. Aberjhani
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In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love. Aberjhani
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same. Aberjhani
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Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine. Aberjhani