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Mental Health Quotes

You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.

Kody Keplinger

It’s okay to be a glowstick: sometimes we have to break before we shine.

Unknown

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Lou Holtz

What consumes your mind, controls your life.

Unknown

Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it.

Prince Harry

It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.

Brian White

Mental health is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.

Noam Shpancer

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Mason Cooley

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

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

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

Caroline Myss

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Mental health is just as important as physical health.

Unknown

It’s okay to not be okay. Just don’t give up.

Unknown

Feelings are just visitors. Let them come and go.

Mooji

Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

Eleanor Brownn

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

Mark Black

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Unknown

Your mental health is a priority. Your happiness is essential. Your self-care is a necessity.

Unknown

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Tori Amos

One day you will tell your story of how you’ve overcome what you’re going through now, and it will become part of someone else’s survival guide.

Unknown

You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective—it just means you’re human.

David Mitchell

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James

The strongest people are those who win battles we know nothing about.

Unknown

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

Dan Millman

Embrace the glorious mess that you are.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.

John Green

Sometimes self-care is exercising and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pajamas. Whatever soothes your soul.

Unknown

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.

Brené Brown

It’s okay to not be okay. It’s just not okay to stay that way.

Unknown

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.

Christopher Germer

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.

Demi Lovato

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Unknown

Sometimes it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.

Unknown

Your illness does not define you. Your strength and courage does.

Unknown

It’s okay to cry. It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to not have all the answers.

Unknown

You either walk inside your story and own it, or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

Brené Brown

Self-care is how you take your power back.

Lalah Delia

Do not lose hope, please believe that there are a thousand beautiful things waiting for you. Sunshine comes to all who feel rain.

R.M. Drake

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein

Just because you are struggling does not mean you are failing.

Unknown

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Give yourself the same care and attention that you give to others and watch yourself bloom.

Unknown

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L’Engle

Mental health is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength to acknowledge your struggles and take steps towards healing.

Unknown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

Erik Erikson

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.

Glenn Close

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Take a deep breath and remind yourself that where you are right now is not where you’ll always be.

Unknown

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore

Recovery is not one and done. It is a lifelong journey that takes place one day, one step at a time.

Unknown

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head.

Unknown

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

Mental health… is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.

Noam Shpancer

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

It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

Aisha Mirza

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

William James

Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.

Joubert Botha

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

David Richo

Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.

Katie Reed

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is okay to not have it together all the time.

Unknown

The strongest people are those who fight unseen battles.

Unknown

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Martha Graham

Healing is not linear.

Unknown

When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is!

Unknown

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.

Audre Lorde

Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, you are not the rain.

Matt Haig

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

Unknown

Don’t believe everything you think.

Unknown

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.

Mel Robbins

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.

Unknown

We are not our trauma. We are not our pain. We are not our mind. We are infinite souls with infinite potential.

Unknown

Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.

Lisa Olivera

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Buddha

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

Mariska Hargitay

It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.

Unknown

Don’t let your mind bully your body.

Unknown

You are not a burden. You have a burden, which by definition is too heavy to carry on your own.

Unknown

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.

John Green

One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and didn’t fall apart.

Linda Poindexter

Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.

Unknown

Scars remind us where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate where we’re going.

David Rossi

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.

Brené Brown

Take time to do what makes your soul happy.

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