Inspiring mental health quotes: Even the most successful and strongest people struggle with mental health issues. We all go through something challenging within ourselves to achieve goals and live a good life. How we encourage ourselves to overcome our struggles takes us from weakness to strength.
In this post, I will share with you positive quotes on mental health. I hope they empower you to keep on hustling and be the best version of yourself.
Inspiring Mental Health Quotes
1. “The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is, you don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need.” – Demi Lovato
2. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” – Jasmine Warga
3. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Inspiring mental health quotes
4. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green
5. “There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.” – Vikram Patel
6. “A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” – Kate Middleton
7. “Healing is not linear. Never underestimate the power of positivity when living with a mental illness.” – Anonymous
8. “You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. When I was in middle school, I was struggling with severe anxiety and depression, and the help and support I received from my family and a therapist saved my life. Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.” – Lili Reinhart
“Mental health is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” — Noam Shpancer, PhD
9. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
10. “You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.” – Lori Deschene
11. “Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it.” – Charles Bukowski
12. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
13. “The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.” – Jonathan Harnisch
14. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Fredrick Douglass
15. “Depression isn’t a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences.” – Johann Hari
16. “Every mountain is conquered by taking one step after another.” – Anonymous
Inspiring mental health quotes
17. “Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships.” – The Stoic Emperor
18. “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” – Christopher Morley
“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter
19. “The highest form of intelligence is to view yourself without judgment.” – Krishnamurti
20. “Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers.” – May Sarton
21. “Even in your darkest moments, you are feeling something. If you’re not feeling, you’re simply just existing, and that isn’t what living should be about.” – Hiral
22. “Love your future more than your past.” – Joe Dispenza
23. “Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud what you have overcome.” – Dr. Phil
24. “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” – Alfred Adler
25. “It’s going to get harder before it gets easier. But it will get better. You just have to make it through.” – Anonymous
26. “Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.” – Kay Redfield Jamison
27. “In an age of never-ending health fads, it’s comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed for millennia. It’s called reading. Yes, books are not just entertaining or educational: they can also improve your mental health.” – Matt Haig
28. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski
“Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” – Lauren Fogel Mers
29. “It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative, whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.” – Sylvia Plath
30. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
31. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength-carrying two days at once. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom
32. “Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.” – Russ Harris
33. “Pain is real. But so is hope.” – Anonymous
34. “That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story is. You keep going.” – Robyn Schneider
Inspiring mental health quotes
35. “It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health, in the same way, we all have physical health.” – Prince Harry
36. “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.” – Jim Morrison
37. “Difficult events occur for our spiritual growth. These aren’t meant to be punishments. Beautiful sunset awaits after heavy rain.” – Haemin Sunim
38. “When you wonder if this world needs you. It does. It needs your courage. It needs your strength. It needs your beauty. This world needs you.” – Anonymous
“Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up every day and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.” – Dave Grohl
39. “Because of your difficult experience, you will become stronger, wiser, and more compassionate toward those having a hard time.” – Haemin Sunim
40. “Take your time healing, as long as you want. Nobody else knows what you’ve been through. How could they know how long it will take to heal you?” – Abertoli
41. “Forget the hard times. You have 12 new chapters and 365 new episodes.” – Anonymous
42. “The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.” – S. Ajna
Inspiring mental health quotes
43. “While you may not be able to change what happens to you, you can choose how you act through it. Choose to be happy.” – Anonymous
44. “One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” – Jack Penn
45. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
46. “Every adversity you overcome makes you stronger for the next mountain you have to climb.” – Anonymous
47. “Don’t lose yourself. You have the map to yourself. You just need to find your way back.”- Anonymous
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman.
48. “Trying to build a life where you never experience bad feelings is like building a ship that can’t handle a storm.” – Neil Strauss
49. “Acknowledge your feelings. It’s okay to be sad or unhappy. Once you realize that’s how you feel, you can take steps to feel happy again. But if you bottle them up, those feelings will last even longer.” – Anonymous
50. “We take care of our dental health. We don’t take care of our mental health. I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy mentally.” – Howie Mandel
51. “Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.” – Shae Ross
Inspiring mental health quotes
52. “Even in the darkest nights, you’ll find reasons to light up with joy. You just have to stop and look for them.” – Anonymous
53. “In case no one told you today, you are needed and you deserve the best.” – Anonymous
54. “You’ll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.” – Douglas Pagels
55. “Be willing to release those things stored in your heart and mind that are causing you discomfort.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
56. “If you want the light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Guy Finley
57. “If you got out of bed today and chose to face the world, I’m proud of you. If you’re still struggling to, I’m rooting for you.” – Upile Chisala
58. “Healing is not an overnight process. It is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.” – Leon Brown
59. “Action is the antidote to despair.” – Joan Baez
60. “One of the things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don’t have prior awareness, you don’t have any idea what hit you.” – Kay Redfield Jamison
61. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
62. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
63. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” – Grenville Kleiser
64. “Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it.” – Eckhart Tolle
65. “You deserve to rest. Even if only for a moment. Put down the weight you’re carrying. Let go of the need to keep it all together. Take off your warrior mask. For this moment, now just breathe.” – Jason Garner
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Really moved ,thanks ; sometimes it feels like we living only to survive..
Yes, I know this feeling. You’re welcome, have a great day! 💚 🌻
Excellent quotes! Thank you for sharing.
You’re welcome 😊
Thanks!
So many of these (and other) quotes helped save my sanity in a very insane time of my life and helped me to heal; I felt if someone else felt it strongly enough to write it down, they had been through it successfully to write about it. That gave me hope that one day too I’d feel strong and well enough to do it too.
Yes, we are not alone into this. ❤️
I get inspired by quotes a lot, they’re priceless words of wisdom and experience. 🙌🏻
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Enjoy your day. 😊 💙
My pleasure! Have a beautiful day too!
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