65 Mental Health Quotes to Help You Find Strength and Peace
It’s no secret that there are numerous barriers to mental health care. Luckily, there are a few simple things that you can do to boost your mood all on your own. Take these mental health quotes, for example, which are powerful tools for shifting your mindset and motivating you to push forward.
Whether you’re dealing with symptoms of anxiety or depression, suffering from burnout, or healing from trauma, caring for your mental health is crucial. That’s why we hope that these inspiring mental health quotes can help you embrace the power of positive thinking, learn how to be happier, and find the strength to carry on through hard times.
Of course, if you are going through a particularly hard time in life or live with a mental health condition, we encourage you to read our guide on how to find a good therapist so that a trained professional can give you additional coping strategies and provide you with a safe space to process your thoughts and emotions.
These quotes about mental health help remind us of how important it is to take care of our brains, practice mindfulness, and engage in regular self-care. Keep reading for a variety of self-love quotes, motivational quotes, quotes about strength, positive affirmations, and more.
Mental health quotes
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen
“It’s okay not to be okay.” —Maya Angelou
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” —Sylvia Plath
“Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find. But I always find it. I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left.” —Lady Gaga
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” —Mariska Hargitay
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” —Glenn Close
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” —Barack Obama
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” —Brené Brown
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.” —Rumi
“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself—what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.” —Warsan Shire
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” —Charles Bukowski
“You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” —Julian Seifter
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” —Willie Nelson
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” —Oprah Winfrey
“There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.” —Fred Rogers
“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” ―Virginia Woolf
“Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” —Walt Whitman
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” —Will Rogers
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore
“There is no perfection, only life.” —Milan Kundera
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” —Emery Lord
“It is interesting how often we can’t see all the ways in which we are being strong.” —Lena Dunham
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” —Maya Angelou
“Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” —Stephanie Bennett Henry
“There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” —Amanda Gorman
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” —Rumi
“Treat yourself like someone you love.” —Glennon Doyle
“When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” —Fred Rogers
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” —Dalai Lama
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” —Vivian Greene
“You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space.” —Bianca Sparacino
“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent van Gogh
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”―Deborah Day
“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” —Maya Angelou
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” —Thomas Edison
“The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” —William James
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw
“There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship.” —Nayyirah Waheed
“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.” —Rainbow Rowell
“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” —Mary Dunbar
“You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” —Dan Millman
“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature.” —Bram Stoker
“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” —Buddha
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” —Robert Morely
“The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” —John Green
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” —Deepak Chopra
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” —Aristotle
“You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person.’ It makes you human.” —Lori Deschene
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.” —Audrey Hepburn
“Keep watering yourself. You’re growing.” —E. Russell
“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” —Demi Lovato
“Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me.” —Ain Eineziz
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” —Marcus Aurelius
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” —André Gide
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