Hearing others talk about their experience with mental health can bring us comfort and hope. These are 50 of my favourite mental health motivational quotes.
When I was suffering with my mental health I wanted to hear from others about their journeys. I found strength, understanding and hope in the quotes I had heard from others. So I compiled a list of the mental health motivational quotes that really struck a chord with me.
I hope these mental health motivational quotes find a way to bring light and hope into your world. As always I recommend talking to someone and seeking help. But I hope these quotes are able to ground you here the way they did me.
Here are 50 mental health motivational quotes to help your journey.
Mental Health Motivational Quotes.
I could write a pep talk post all about mental health. We could talk about its importance. I could tell you how people who have had the darkest times with their mental health are now the strongest of people. The kindest of people.
I could, but sometimes it’s more impactful to hear it from multiple people. Hearing from others can bring us comfort, help us to understand and give us hope.
So here are 50 mental health quotes I think will inspire others.
Quotes with something to learn.
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
“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
“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
“Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.” — Mel Robbins
“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
“Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia
“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
“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
“‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.” — Molly Bahr
“Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” ― Raymond McCauley
A few people you may know.
“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
“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
“I would say what others have said: It gets better. One day, you’ll find your tribe. You just have to trust that people are out there waiting to love you and celebrate you for who you are. In the meantime, the reality is you might have to be your own tribe. You might have to be your own best friend. That’s not something they’re going to teach you in school. So start the work of loving yourself. — Wentworth Miller
“All stress, anxiety, depression, is caused when we ignore who we are, and start living to please others.” — Paulo Coelho
Long but important.
“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
“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
“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
“It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” ― Jennifer Niven
Quotes to inspire.
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. — Emery Lord
“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
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.” ― Cammie McGovern
“In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
“I am bent, but not broken, I am scarred, but not disfigured. Sad, but not hopeless, I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter, I am depressed, but not giving up.” — Anonymous
“There is no cast, no scar, no stitches. No X-ray with the evidence of pain. Rarely is there physical evidence of mental illness, but for those suffering from pervasive mental illness the pain and exhaustion is deep and heavy.” – Emily Sanders
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” — Amit Ray
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” — Hugh Prather
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” — Charles Spurgeon
“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
A legend or two.
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
“I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.” ― Vincent van Gogh
“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
“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
“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
“Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” – Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
“What if you moved through the world as if you were easy to be loved? Because I promise you, you are easy to love.” — Sonalee Rashatwar
“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
“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.” ― Andrew Solomon
“[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
Bonus.
This quote is one with deep personal meaning to me, in amidst my darkest of times this quote gave me comfort and strength. I hope it can do the same for you.
“Stay, because it means a lot to you. Plant yourself in the ground. Dig in. Root yourself deep. The storms will come, but don’t run from them. Stay. Stay because it matters. Lean into the storm. Flex your branches. Bury your foundations deep in the Earth and stay. Stay.” — Unknown.
These were 50 Mental Health Motivational Quotes we should all hear.
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