110 Mental Health Quotes to Uplift and Inspire You

Mental health is extremely important. Psychological and emotional well-being impacts every area of your life. Having positive mental health allows you to effectively deal with the daily challenges and stressors of day to day life. You communicate well with others, make healthy decisions and live life to its fullest. But sometimes, struggles with mental illnesses and addiction can make it seem like achieving a healthy mental state is impossible. It’s absolutely normal; many of us have been there. I have curated best mental health quotes for the people who are struggling with mental illness. These quotes on mental health and illness will uplift and inspire throughout their mental health journey.

Mental Health Quotes

1. “We need to train more people on Mental Health First Aid.” ~ Invajy

2. “Connecting with positive people and investing in good relationships are important for your mental well-being.” ~ Invajy

3. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” ~ Nido Qubein

4. “Mindfulness is secret of effective self-care. It augments mental well-being and reduces mental illness.” ~ Invajy

6. “Mental health issues need to be discussed more openly in society; people must come out of social stigma.” ~ Invajy

5. “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost
6. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” ~ Leonard Cohen
7. “I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will never be a burden.” ~ Sophie Turner
8. “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 you are not the rain.” ~ Matt Haig
9. “If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” ~ Selena Gomez

Mental Health Awareness Quotes

11. “Awareness of mental health issues is still a biggest challenge across the globe.” ~ Invajy
12. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” ~ C.S. Lewis
13. “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
14. “Mental health is just as important as… physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” ~ Kate Middleton
15. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” ~ Joubert Botha
16. “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” ~ Adam Ant
17. “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
18. “Mental health… is not a destination but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” ~ Noam Shpancer
19. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves” ~ Henry David Thoreau
20. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ~ Confucius

Quotes about Mental Health

21. “Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~ Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh
22. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
23. “Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” ~ Raymond McCauley
24. “Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” ~ Shannon Purser
25. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

26. “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 Rhinehart
27. “My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” ~ Emery Lord
28. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”  ~ Dan Millman
29. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” ~ John Green
30. “Don’t believe everything you think.”  ~ Anonymous

Mental Well-being Quotes

31. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ~ Aristotle
32. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
33. “Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.” ~ Charlotte Eriksson
34. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”~ Anonymous proverb
35. “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.

36. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ~ Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
37. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
38. “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
39. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” ~ Pastor Rick Warren
40. “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.” ~ Steve Maraboli

Mental Health Quotes

41. “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” ~ Buddha
42. “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
43. “To think too much is a disease.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
44. “What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with.” ~ Pink
45. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha
46. “This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.” ~ Cammie McGovern
47. “Your mental and physical health are closely linked.” ~ Invajy
48. “Anyone can be affected [by mental illness] despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?” ~ Kristen Bell
49. “Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.” ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
50. “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

Mental Wellness Quotes

51. “Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.” ~ Ovid
52. “You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. And, you have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” ~ Julian Seifter
53. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” ~ Fred Rogers
54. “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” ~ Juliette Lewis
55. “Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” ~  Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
56. “Tough times never last, but tough people do!” ~ Robert Schuller
57. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” ~ Glenn Close
58. Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language.” ~ Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
59. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~ Frederick Douglas
60. “Give yourself permission to slow down.” ~ Gabby Bernstein

Mental illness quotes

61. “Almost everything for which I felt anxious has never turned into a reality.” ~ Invajy
62. “Start prioritizing your mental health instead of adjusting to toxic spaces.” ~ Thema Bryant-Davis
63. “He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
64. “Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.” ~ Mel Robbins
65. “Trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you.” ~ Gabor Mate
66. “Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
67. “Digital addiction is going to be one of the great mental health crises of our time.” ~ Sam Altman
68. “You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.” ~ Bianca Sparacino
69. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” ~ Amy Cuddy
70. “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” ~ Robert J. Sawyer

Mental Health Quotes

71. “Take a deep breath to remember you are the child who lived through survival mode and the empowered adult who chose their healing.” ~ Dr. Nicole LePera
72. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
73. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” ~ John Milton
74. “Depression is a liar. Anxiety is a deceiver. PTSD is a trickster. As we heal, we gain more clarity.” ~ Thema Bryant-Davis
75. “Anxiety is not what you experience, it’s how you how you perceive and respond to the problems.” ~ Invajy
76. “At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your let or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distinction.” ~ Michelle Obama
77. “Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.” ~ Terry Pratchett
78. “I’ve run my whole life – for more than exercise, for mental health.” ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
79. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.” ~ Lao Tzu
80. “I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” ~ Jack Kerouac

Quotes on Mental Health

81. “Like two swords can’t remain in same sheath; mindfulness and anxiety also can’t remain in same person. Live in the present moment.” ~ Invajy
82. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
83. “You have mental illness until you feel you can come out of this.” ~ Invajy
84. “The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.” ~ Joker
85. “Anxiety is a brain game. If you don’t allow an anxious feeling to begin, you don’t need to get rid of it.” ~ Invajy

86. “Loving thoughts and actions are clearly beneficial for our physical and mental health.” ~ Dalai Lama
87. “Let your story go. Allow yourself to be present with who you are right now.” ~ Russ Kyle
88. “With inner strength or mental stability, we can endure all kinds of adversity.” ~ Dalai Lama
89. “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it,” ~ Dwayne Johnson
90. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” ~ Amy March

Quotes about mental health struggles

91. “In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”  ~ Albert Camus
92. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
93. “The only journey is the journey within.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
94. “Emotional pain is not something that should be hidden away and never spoken about. There is truth in your pain, there is growth in your pain, but only if it’s first brought out into the open.” ~ Steven Aitchison
95. “The acknowledgment of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.” ~ Stefan Molyneux
96. “True suffering is being trapped in your own head.” ~ Adam Snowflake
97. “I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.” ~ Matt Haig
98. “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” ~ Matt Haig
99. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” ~ Astrid Alauda
100. “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” ~ Bill Clinton

Positive Mental Health Quotes

101. “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained.” ~ Mark Twain
102. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ~ Walter Anderson
103. “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say, ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say, ‘My heart is broken.'” ~ C.S. Lewis
104. “Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.” ~ Stephanie Garber
105. “Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.” ~ Nathaniel Branden
106. “We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.” ~ Kate Middleton
107. “But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.” ~ Robert Uttaro
108. “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
109. “I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.” ~ Andrew Solomon
110. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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