109 Mental Health Quotes To Grow Awareness (2024 Update)

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

"It's so important that we all speak up on mental health."
- Anne-Marie

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

"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

"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

"Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character."
- Pastor Rick Warren

"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

"Every negative belief weakens the partnership between mind and body."
- Deepak Chopra

"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

"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 Reinehart

"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

"Nobody can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it."
- Charles Bukowski

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
- Nido Qubein

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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

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

"I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch."
- Raymond E. Feist

"We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health."
- Matt Haig

"Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health."
- Gail Porter

"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

"What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health."
- Leo Varadkar

"Whether an illness affects your heart, your arm, or your brain, it's still an illness, and there shouldn't be any distinction. 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. Instead, we should make it clear that getting help isn't a sign of weakness — it's a sign of strength."
- Michelle Obama

"A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support."
- Kate Middleton

"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."
- Vikram Patel

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

"Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with."
- Adam Ant

"Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health."
- Kate Middleton

"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 the awareness. Let's let everybody know it's OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem."
- Demi Lovato

"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 or imply that all the time about people with mental illness."
- Elyn R. Saks

"Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It's not just this neat little issue you can put into a box."
- Shannon Purser

"The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain."
- William Styron

"There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in"
- Leonard Cohen

"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 other to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime — and that's OK."
- Beau Taplin

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

"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

"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer."
- Norman Mailer

"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

"A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ."
- John Steinbeck

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well."
- Glenn Close

"Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about."
- Anna Wintour

"The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health."
- Stefan Molyneux

"I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more."
- Ginger Zee

"Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with."
- Frans van Houten

"I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it."
- Mauro Ranallo

"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

"There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish."
- Jo Brand

"The only journey is the journey within."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

"It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes."
- Jared Padalecki

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."
- John Green

"I used to be embarrassed of my broken parts. Not anymore… Even in pieces, I'm worth having."
- Alfa

"Mental health isn't all of me, but it's a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being."
- Adwoa Aboah

"She is beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again."
- J.M. Storm

"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 body casts."
- Andrew Solomon

"Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health."
- Dr. Laura Fogel Mersy

"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

"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."
- Carl Gustav Jung

"In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety."
- Abraham Maslow

"Not surprisingly, there has been a mismatch between the enormous impact of mental illness and addiction on the public’s health and our society’s limited commitment to addressing these problems."
- John Campo

"Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness."
- Vikram Patel

"Deep breathing is our nervous system's love language."
- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"The response from the beginning has been really, really wonderful and positive. People have always really responded to me talking about mental health."
- Lili Reinhart

"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."
- Patty Duke

"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."
- Jenny Lawson

"PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions."
- Susan Pease Banitt

"One of the things that baffles me … 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."
- Carrie Fisher

"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

"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

"Strictly' has taught me that activity outside work is good for my mental health."
- Stacey Dooley

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

"I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality."
- Andrew Solomon

"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

"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

"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

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

"We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem."
- Kate Middleton

"Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need."
- Nathaniel Branden

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

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

"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

"Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether."
- Stephanie Garber

"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

"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

"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

"Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open."
- B.K.S. Iyengar