100+ Inspirational Quotes About Mental Illness to Empower and Uplift

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

- Buddha

"Twenty-five years ago, we did not dream that people might someday be able actually to recover from mental illnesses. Today it is a very real possibility."

- Rosalynn Carter

"You do not have to live the life that OCD wants you to live – you can live the life that you want to live."

- Patrick B. McGrath, Ph.D.

"There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help, and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help."

- Howie Mandel

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"I hope one day that, as a culture, we can take mental health as seriously as we take our physical health. That would be the ideal."

- April Kilduff, MA, LCPC, LMHC

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

- Melody Beattie

"When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like."

- Jenny Lawson

"We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together. We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently."

- Michelle Obama

"Whether an illness affects your heart, your arm, or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there shouldn’t be any distinction … We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently."

- Michelle Obama

"We should make it clear that getting help isn’t a sign of weakness—it’s a sign of strength."

- Michelle Obama

"We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?"

- Tipper Gore

"I think it’s really important to take the stigma away from mental health… My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth?"

- Kerry Washington

"In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

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

- J. K. Rowling

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."

- Les Miserables

"If you know someone who’s depressed please resolve to never ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest and best things you will ever do."

- Stephen Fry

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"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

"I try to be strong not only for other people but also myself, but sometimes there are weaknesses in strength and that’s OK, and it’s OK not to be OK, and I’ve taught myself that."

- Simone Biles

"No one would ever tell a cancer patient to ‘just get over it.’ Why people think they can tell those with a mental illness as much is baffling."

- Sara Ella, Coral

"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all."

- Bill Clinton

"It’s O.K. to not be O.K., and it’s O.K. to talk about it."

- Naomi Osaka

"We need so much more openness, transparency and understanding that it’s OK to talk about depression as an illness. It’s not a weakness. It’s not a moral shortcoming. It’s not something people brought on themselves."

- John F. Greden

"We, as a culture, have not fully acknowledged how much help is needed. The only real shame is on us for not being willing to speak openly. For continuing to deny that mental health is related to our overall health. We need to start talking, and we need to start now."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Glenn Close

"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

"Self-care is how you take your power back."

- Lalah Delia

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"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

"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 “The Rock” Johnson

"One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of. They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication."

- Carrie Fisher

"The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club."

- Prince Harry

"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

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

- John Green

"Just remember, you are not alone, in fact, you are in a very commonplace with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals."

- Mike Moreno

"Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better? Have you tried not being sad, not being sick? Have you tried being more like me? Have you tried shutting up? Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying, and yes, I am still sick. Sometimes monsters are invisible, and sometimes demons attack you from the inside. Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth does not mean they aren’t ripping through me. Pain does not need to be seen to be felt. Telling me there is no problem won’t solve the problem. This is not how miracles are born. This is not how sickness works."

- Emm Roy

"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 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

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone."

- Shonda Rhimes

"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"

- Elyn R. Saks

"Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you’ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river — and you’ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you."

- Alysha Speer

"It’s possible to live well, feel well, and also find happiness with bipolar disorder or any other mental illness [you’re] struggling with."

- Demi Lovato

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

- Aristotle

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back."

- Albert Camus

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

- Noam Shpancer, PhD

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Albus Dumbledore

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

- Brené Brown

"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

"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

"I cannot stand the words ‘Get over it’. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK."

- Beau Taplin

"Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health — take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself."

- Beyoncé

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Mel Robbins

"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

"Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"Sometimes self care is exercise 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."

- Nanea Hoffman

"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, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

- Louise L. Hay

"You don’t have to be fearless. Doing it afraid is just as brave."

- Susan Jeffers

"Being vulnerable is actually a strength and not a weakness."

- Cara Delevingne

"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."

- Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions."

- Peter Shepherd

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You don’t have to be strong all the time. It’s okay to let your guard down."

- Susan Jeffers

"To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly."

- Brené Brown

"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."

- Buddha

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."

- Brené Brown

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

- Plutarch

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"You are not the work you do; you are the person you are."

- Toni Morrison

"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us."

- Maya Angelou

"We have to have boundaries in order to prevent burnout."

- Molly Burrets

"It doesn’t have to be in meditation, but in quiet periods, slowing down, we can understand what’s coming, we can feel and we can make the conscious choice to live in the present moment."

- Floyd “Ski” Chilton

"Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression."

- Jasmine Warga

"Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are."

- Emma Watson

"If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief."

- Brené Brown

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

- Nathaniel Branden

"Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"We all have mental health in the same way that we all have physical health. It’s okay to have depression, it’s okay to have anxiety, it’s okay to have an anxiety disorder."

- Prince Harry

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

- Noam Shpancer

"Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken."

- AJ Lee

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Dan Millman

"By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty."

- Ali Washington

"The gentlest reminder: You might not need to read another self-help book, attend another training, or bookmark another Instagram post as much as you need to listen to, trust, and practice what you already know. What if the answer you’re looking for is actually within you already?"

- Lisa Olivera

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

- David Richo

"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

"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."

- Demi Lovato

"We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Lou Holtz

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"Life is about creating yourself, not finding yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you."

- Marya Hornbacher

"Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own."

- Alyssa Reyans

"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

"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

"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

"Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character."

- Pastor Rick Warren

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"The more you care for your mental health, the more you realize how unnecessary and superficial other things are."

- Maxime Lagacé

"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

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

- Jonathan Harnisch

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

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

- John Wooden

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

- Rumi

"OCD is not how it’s stereotyped… it made me feel like my mind was playing a cruel trick on me… Anxiety comes and goes, but now it feels like just another difficult emotion, as opposed to something that’s consuming my life. By doing the work and showing up for myself every day, I feel like I have more trust in myself than ever before."

- Camila Cabello

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

- James Baldwin

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"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. I’m lucky I found one little glimmer stored away."

- Lady Gaga

"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

"You say you’re depressed — all I see is resilience. 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

"Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won't make the storm go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes."

- Russ Harris

"And still, I rise."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in."

- Leonard Cohen

"Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"I think it’s really important to take the stigma away from mental health… My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth."

- Kerry Washington

"My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it."

- Emery Lord

"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 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

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not."

- Cammie McGovern

"Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."

- Stephen Chbosky

"You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are."

- Max Lucado

"There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet."

- Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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

- Mariska Hargitay

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

- Proverb

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

- Viktor Frankl

"This too shall pass."

- Pinterest

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

- Rumi

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Robin Roberts

"People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement."

- Marsha Linehan

"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too."

- John Green

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Let your story go. Allow yourself to be present with who you are right now."

- Russ Kyle

"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

"It’s not a mountain that you climb or a hurdle that you jump, it’s something that you live with in an ongoing way. People want that narrative of illness being in the past tense. But a lot of the time, it isn’t."

- John Green

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

"[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

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

- Christopher Germer

"My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Hugh Prather

"Every day may not be good … but there’s something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

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

- Nido Qubein

"Be dedicated to change the way in which people see mental illness at all levels of society. If not for yourself, advocate for those who are struggling in silence."

- Germany Kent

"That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren’t ready, then you weren’t ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that."

- Norah Vincent

"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

"‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK."

- Molly Bahr, LMHC

"If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling."

- Tamara Ireland Stone

"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

"Not all battles are visible and neither are the victories."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Loneliness will come and go, quite often as it chooses, over the course of human life."

- Sam Carr

"When under the strain of bipolar’s strongest symptoms, we certainly can make selfish decisions, but that doesn’t make us selfish people. In fact, because we have struggled and known such depths of darkness, our compassion runs deeper."

- Lyss Trayers

"To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown."

- Jeanette Winterson

"No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries."

- Astrid Alauda

"Feeling your feelings will not lead to depression."

- Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Joubert Botha

"Change what you can, manage what you can’t."

- Raymond McCauley

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"If you tried / and didn’t end up / where you wanted to go / that’s still progress."

- Rupi Kaur

"Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so."

- Lemony Snicket

"…if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication."

- Daniel Goleman

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened."

- Michel de Montaigne

"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

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

"To perceive is to suffer."

- Aristotle

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

"Don’t believe everything you think."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

"It’s okay to set boundaries to protect your mental health."

"Your mental health is just as important as your career or education."

"OCD is not a life sentence. It is a challenge that, with time and effort, you can overcome."

"Mental health is not a destination, it’s a journey."

"It’s okay to take medication for your mental health."

"It’s okay to ask for support when you need it."

"Healing is not linear, but it is possible."

"Your mental health matters more than any external validation."

"You are not alone in your struggles."

"It’s okay to take time to focus on your mental health."

"You are capable of managing your mental health and living a fulfilling life."

"You have the power to overcome your mental health challenges."

"It’s okay to prioritize your mental health over other commitments."

"Your mental health struggles do not define your future."

"You are deserving of love and compassion, especially from yourself."

"You are capable of creating a life filled with purpose and meaning, despite your mental health challenges."

"Mental health issues do not make you any less of a person."

"Your mental health journey may be difficult, but it’s worth it."

"You are capable of overcoming your mental health challenges."

"You are not a burden for seeking help for your mental health."

"You are not alone in your journey towards better mental health."

"You are not your thoughts or emotions."

"You are capable of creating a positive mindset and outlook on life."

"You are deserving of a life free from mental health struggles."

"Your mental health should not be stigmatized."

"Mental health recovery is possible, and it starts with seeking help."

"You are worthy of a life filled with joy and happiness."

"It’s okay to have bad days and ask for support when you need it."

"You have the power to change your relationship with your mental health."

"Your mental health journey may be a lifelong process, but it’s worth it."

"You are capable of breaking free from negative thought patterns."

"Mental health is just as important as physical health when it comes to overall wellness."

"You have the power to choose how you respond to your mental health challenges."

"It’s okay to take time to rest and recharge when you’re feeling overwhelmed."

"You are not alone in your struggles, even if it feels that way."

"Mental health is a journey of self-discovery and growth."

"You are worthy of receiving support and love, even on your toughest days."

"Mental illness is not a personal failure, it’s a medical condition."

"It’s okay to take a break and prioritize your mental health."

"There is no shame in seeking help for your mental health."

"You are worthy of happiness and peace of mind."

"Taking care of your mental health is an act of self-love."

"Your struggles do not define you."

"Your mental health is just as important as your physical health."

"It’s okay not to be okay."

"You are not weak for struggling with mental health issues."

"You are not your mental illness."

"You are stronger than you realize."

"Your mental health journey is unique to you."

"Self-care is not selfish, it’s necessary for good mental health."

"Small steps can lead to big progress in mental health."

"The sun will rise, and we will try again."