These Positive Mental Health quotes will encourage you and make you realize that you are not alone in this battle.
Mental health is a state of our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Our mental health deprends on how we think, feel and act on situations. It affects all of our important areas of our life.
Even though now we are encouraged to talk about it, ask for help but mental health is still a taboo for those who go through it and a misunderstanding for those who has never dealt with these kind of issues.
Those who are afraid of what others think or the lack of understanding how big this problem is are the people who are afraid to seek help. Many of us dont take mental health as serious as we take our physical health because they dont think it is as important as our physical health. They are wrong here. When you are ashamed or afraid to see a doctor when you have physical illness then why with mental illness.
If your brain wont funtion properly, how would your body do? Mental health is important in the way how we deal with stress and situations we go through in our daily life. Without positive mental health, it will be impossible for you live your life with its full potential.
Here we are sharing a collection of Mental Health quotes to encourage you deal with it and dont be ashamed to seek help.
Mental Health Quotes
“I get up and pace the room as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”
― Rosamund Lupton
“The sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills, and rewrote stories,
but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk
tick tick tick
me not making a sound
and some days I just don’t know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,
but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn’t be scared’… Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”
― Laura Davis
“I want you to promise me that you’ll stop comparing yourself to everyone else.’
‘What?’ I broke off the hug, not understanding.
‘You. Evelyn. You’re always like, ‘I wish I could be like this’ or ‘I wish I could be more like so-and-so’. You’re obsessed with being normal, but that’s well boring, and you’re extraordinary, Evie. Promise me you’ll stop trying to stop being you’.”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?
“You always say such lovely things to me, Red. Do you say them to yourself?”
― Talia Hibbert
“To think too much is a disease.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson
“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 health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
Uplifting Positive Mental Health Quotes
“It was too heavy a burden to carry and I simply couldn’t do that anymore. I sought and received treatment, I put positive people around me and I got back to doing what I love – writing songs and making music.” – Mariah Carey
“Mental health sufferers are not crazy. They have special insight. You better recognize that setting aside your interest people to stay asleep and show empathy towards God’s imperfect creations, otherwise the world has no meaning to exist.”― Maria Karvouni
“Is stress inflicted on you — or created by you?”― Frank Sonnenberg
“I didn’t talk to anyone about [postpartum depression]. I was very reluctant.. Four of my friends felt the same way I did, and everyone was too embarrassed to talk about it.” — Adele
“Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” –Lemony Snicket
“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” – Adam Ant
“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
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
“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 only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Mental Health Quotes Of The Day
“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha
“It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggles with depression sometimes.” — Jared Padalecki
“It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.” — Demi Lovato
“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.” ― Flannery O’Connor
“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.” – Stephanie Garber
“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” – Diane Abbott
“Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.” – Pete Earley
“Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.”― Matt Haig
“It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.”― Sarah Wilson
“Depression… is what your suffering actually yours?”― Susanna Mittermaier
Mental Health Day Quotes
“There is a point where courage becomes a symptom of mental illness.”― Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” – Bill Clinton
“You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” – Dale Carnegie
“You are stronger than you know. In the depths of despair, you find your true strength within.” – Asad Meah
“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
“Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.” – Anonymous
“I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better — and maybe not all that much better after all.” —Stephen King
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” — Ovid
Short Mental Health Quotes
“The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not.” ― Elyn R. Saks
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“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
“Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem.” — Demi Lovato
“My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord
“You will emerge from this nightmare like the powerful, beautiful, resilient person that you are. It can be hard to remember this when you feel like a shell of the person you once were. But trust me: You are capable of overcoming so much more than you think.” – Elite Daily
“No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that all the time about people with mental illness.” —Elyn R. Saks
“It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s okay to disassociate. It’s okay to hide from the world. It’s okay to need help. It’s okay not to be okay. Your mental illness is not a personal failure.” —Unknown
“Through the vehicle of our emotions, our mind, body, and spirit are sending signals that something has to shift.”― Randy Taran
“It’s okay to not be okay – it means that your mind is trying to heal itself.”― Abhijit Naskar
Stigma Mental Health Quotes
“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
“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”― Matt Haig
“If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez
“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep their secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible body casts.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” — Mama Indigo
“Being vulnerable is actually a strength and not a weakness — that’s why more and more mental health is such an important thing to talk about. It’s the same as being physically sick. And when you keep all those things inside, when you bottle them up, it makes you ill.” — Cara Delevingne
“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
“Anyone can be affected, 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
“I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s there to be ashamed of? I went through a really tough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.” — J. K. Rowling
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”― Nathaniel Lee
Mental Health Quotes By Famous People
“We are not our trauma. We are not our brain chemistry. That’s part of who we are, but we’re so much more than that.” ― Sam J. Miller
“Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.” ―Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” — Astrid Alauda
“True suffering is being trapped in your own head.”― Adam Snowflake
“Those who suffer from depression would know that all the things that might seem nonsensical are eventually real.”― Dwimirnani
“The only people who have room to worry about the future are those who aren’t fighting just to survive the present.”― Kerry Kletter
“When anxiety is in balance, it helps us to think ahead to the future, makes plans, and get organized.”― Jessica Moore
“I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.”― Matt Haig
“The quickest way to end up feeling angry all the time is to repress it and fight against it.”― Jessica Moore
“Mental health is an important topic and should be discussed more frequently. It’s not “attention-seeking.”― Brien Blatt
Mental Health Encouragement Quotes
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
― Susan Pease Banitt
“Don’t let your struggle become your identity.” – Unknown
“And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.” — Miley Cyrus
“Your illness does not define you. Your strength and courage does.” – Unknown
“I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.” ― Jonathan Harnisch
“There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight every day.” — Jared Padalecki
“If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.” – Martin H. Fischer
“I let it get to me that day. I wasn’t in a good place. And unfortunately, I was going through a rough time and I let it get to me a little bit too much. That was it,”- Liam Payne
“Hope, hope, hope. It has to be there. Rob the person of hope, and there won’t be any recovery.” – Dan Fisher
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” – Emery Lord
Mental Health Matters Quotes
“Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.”― Nathaniel Branden
“..balancing the time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.” ― Amy E. Spiegel
“I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.” — Justin Bieber
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.” – C.G. Jung
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” – Carl Jung
“A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” – Kate Middleton
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”― Juliette Lewis
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Amy March
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”― John Green
“I’m actually taking medication that seems to be pretty good. It’s not making me feel too tired or sluggish or anything like that. Finding the proper balance is what is most important,” – Mariah Carey
Protect Your Mental Health Quotes
“The acknowledgment of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.” ― Stefan Molyneux
“What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.” ― Raymond L. Cramer
“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”― Cammie McGovern
“It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggles with depression sometimes.” — Jared Padalecki
“It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.” — Demi Lovato
“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” – Louise Hart
“Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren
“What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.” ― Raymond L. Cramer
“Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There’s only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.” ― Tori Spelling
“What mental health needs are more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close
Did these positive mental health quotes inspired you?
Well, there are many of us who deals with mental illness. But the question is how to deal with it? There are many things you do to deal with it. Firstly, seek professional help. Connect with your friends and do something you love. Invest time in yourself and try meditation. It teaches you to control your thoughts and how to deal with your negative ones.
Work on yourself and bring positive changes in life. A profession may help you with medications but you also have to work on your lifestyle and improve the way of your living to get better results. We hope these Mental Health quotes will encourage you to bring some positive changes in your life.
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