“I’m convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.” ― David Satcher
“I’m not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.” ― Demi Lovato
“There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling – absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.” ― Dan Barker
“Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.” ― Gail Porter
“I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.” ― David Alan Grier
“I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.” ― Emily Carpenter
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” ― Bo Bennett
“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” ― Patricia Neal
“The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.” ― Bessel van der Kolk
“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.” ― Robert Foster Bennett
“It’s important to point out that mental health is more about wellness rather than sickness.” — Matt Purcell
“Mental health isn’t always about feeling good. As I define it, mental health is about accepting reality on reality’s terms.” ― Drew Pinsky
“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
“Start prioritizing your mental health instead of adjusting to toxic spaces.” — Thema Bryant-Davis
“Loving thoughts and actions are clearly beneficial for our physical and mental health.” — Dalai Lama
“Mental health can be just as important as physical health – and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.” — Michael Greger
“We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.” — Luke Richardson
“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 health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser
“Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.” — Mel Robbins
“Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.” — Karl A. Menninger
“I’m a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.” — Alan Thicke
“Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.” — Camille Paglia
“Sometimes it’s dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.” — Demi Lovato
“The feeling of being valuable – ‘I am a valuable person’- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.” — M. Scott Peck
“There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.” — George Vandeman
“If I never had any mental health issues, there’s no doubt in my mind I’d still be playing.” — Mardy Fish
“Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.” — Alain de Botton
“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.” — Mariel Hemingway
“Mental space is just another way of saying “available energy.” If you are fully charged, you’re more patient, willing, agile, cooperative, and available to change your mind and approach as the situation requires.” ― Rajshree Patel
“We now know that close friendships and affectionate relationships play a huge role in our mental health and well-being and influence how our bodies work.” ― Paul Gilbert
“Experts believe that a reduction of mental and physical stress can help people focus and organize their thoughts in an efficient manner. In this, yoga excels.” ― Susan Hollister
“Running with a partner, or a friend, or just meeting people out and about can be a balm to the isolation that mental-health problems create.” ― Bella Mackie
“We would probably also feel less ashamed or afraid to talk about mental health issues if we knew more certainly where they came from, or what caused them.” ― Edward Bullmore
“Regardless of where you are on the mental health spectrum, it is important to remember that, if you have a problem, with the right support and treatment you can and will get better.” ― Shaun Davies And Andrew Kinder
“Mental health is “messy and chaotic” but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep trying to make sense of it.” ― Nathan Filer
“Your own mental health battles or those of others can make you lose sight of it, but hope is truly the one thing that will keep you going through some of the harder times.” ― Frankie Bridge
“The mind can be like a small child who just needs reassurance that things will be dealt with and looked after. That’s all it needs to let go of these mental worries.” ― Barry McDonagh
“There is a major emphasis on positive versus negative thoughts in dealing with harmful stress and mental health in general. Realistic thoughts should perhaps be the goal.” ― Dr Harry Barry
“What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.” ― Jasmine Warga
“Don’t take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
“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
“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.” ― Samantha Shannon
“I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.” ― John Green
“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative–which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.” ― Sylvia Plath
“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.” ― Tiffany Madison
“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” ― Matt Haig
“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” ― T.J. Klune
“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga
“Recovery is full of ups and downs. There is no such thing as a linear life. But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”
“It’s about the determination to keep walking forward.” – Matt Haig
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds” – Bob Marley
“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.” – Stephen Levine
“At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.” – Matt Haig
“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too.” – Matt Haig
“You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” – Laura Davis
“Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, others head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.” – Dean Karnazes
“It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.” – Amy Poehler
“you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal” ― Rupi Kaur
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” — Abraham Maslow
‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.” — Molly Bahr, LMHC
“Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
“You don’t need to find a lesson in your trauma.” — Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC
“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
“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
“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
“My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord
“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
“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
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not.” ― Elyn R. Saks
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” — Ovid
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay
“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
“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
“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
“Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.” – Anonymous
“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
“You are stronger than you know. In the depths of despair, you find your true strength within.” – Asad Meah
“Everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives, and maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time, but there’s nothing wrong with you.” – Emma Stone
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” – Dale Carnegie
“You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” – Bill Clinton
“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
“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
“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
“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” — Astrid Alauda
“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
“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
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”― Nathaniel Lee
“If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez
“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”― Matt Haig
“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
“The quickest way to end up feeling anger all the time is to repress it and fight against it.”― Jessica Moore
“I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.”― Matt Haig
“The only people who have room to worry about the future are those who aren’t fighting just to survive the present.”― Kerry Kletter
“Those who suffer from depression would know that all the things that might seem nonsensical are eventually real.”― Dwimirnani
“True suffering is being trapped in your own head.”― Adam Snowflake
“It’s okay to not be okay – it means that your mind is trying to heal itself.”― Abhijit Naskar
“Through the vehicle of our emotions, our mind, body, and spirit are sending signals that something has to shift.”― Randy Taran
“There is a point where courage becomes a symptom of mental illness.”― Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Depression… is what your suffering actually yours?”― Susanna Mittermaier
“Is stress inflicted on you — or created by you?”― Frank Sonnenberg
“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
“Mental health is an important topic, and should be discussed more frequently. It’s not “attention seeking.”― Brien Blatt
“When anxiety is in balance, it helps us to think ahead to the future, make plans, and get organized.”― Jessica Moore
“It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.”― Sarah Wilson
“Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.”― Matt Haig
“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
“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
“There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.” — Jared Padalecki
“Hope, hope, hope. It has to be there. Rob the person of hope, and there won’t be any recovery.” – Dan Fisher
“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
“Part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t want to do… I check in with myself throughout the day and I say, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ and if the answer is no, then I don’t do it. And you shouldn’t either.” — Lady Gaga
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”― John Green
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Amy March
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”― Juliette Lewis
“A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” – Kate Middleton
“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
“I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.” — Justin Bieber
“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
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” – Carl Jung
“..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.” ― Amy E. Spiegel
“Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.”― Nathaniel Branden
“Don’t let your struggle become your identity.” – Unknown
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”― Susan Pease Banitt
“Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.” – Pete Earley
“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” – Diane Abbott
“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
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer
“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
“Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket
“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
“To think too much is a disease.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren
“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
“The acknowledgment of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.” ― Stefan Molyneux
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” – Emery Lord
“And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicin
“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.” – Stephanie Garber
“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.” ― Flannery O’Connor
“The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“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
“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
“I’ve run my whole life – for more than exercise, for mental health.” – Wendelin Van Draanen
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close
“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”― Aisha Mirza
“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”― Cammie McGovern
“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
“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 needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” – Adam Ant
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress." — Frederick Douglas
Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language.” — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” — Glenn Close
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” ― Juliette Lewis
“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 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
“Mental health is just as important as... physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” — Kate Middleton
“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
"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
"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
“Mental health... is not a destination but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” — Noam Shpancer
“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
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” — Buddha
“Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren
“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
"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." — Jimmy Dean
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus
“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”— Anonymous proverb
“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
“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
“I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up.” — Unknown
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." — Aristotle
"Don’t believe everything you think." — Unknown
"The best way out is always through." — Robert Frost
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman
“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
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein
“Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser
“Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” — Raymond McCauley
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
“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
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves” ― Henry David Thoreau
“If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez
“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
“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
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” ― Leonard Cohen
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.” — Matt Haig
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” — Juliette Lewis
“You can’t see the future coming — not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.” — John Green
“Don’t give up. Don’t give up on your story. Don’t give up on the people you love. Hope is real. Love is real. It’s all worth fighting for.” — Jamie Tworkowski
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” — Og Mandino
“The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.” — Ram Dass
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen
“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To anyone out there who’s hurting — it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help. It’s a sign of strength.” — Barack Obama
“I hope you live a life you are proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“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
“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
“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
“My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord
“If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.” — Rupi Kaur
“It’s healthy to admit you’re not ok. ‘It’s ok not to be ok’ it’s brave. But don’t let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day, or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.” — Jessie J
“It’s okay, you know? It’s okay to be you. It’s okay to just not be okay. It’s okay to not be okay.” — Kristen Stewart
“It’s okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to feel things that are shameful, hate, and feel guilty. I feel like the message we’ve tried to stand by, is that it’s basically okay to have scars and to show them. To show that you’ve been through all sorts of things and have come out a different and better person because of it.” — Hayley Williams
“It’s ok not to be okay, but it’s not okay to stay that way.” — Perry Noble
“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
“Allow yourself the things you need right now. Whether that’s space, rest, support, or something else, know that you are not a burden for taking care of yourself.” — TWLOHA
“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
“Your mental health is everything — prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.” — Mel Robbins
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” — Mark Twain
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous — everyone hasn’t met me yet.” — Rodney Dangerfield
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Amy March
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.” — Marianne Dashwood
“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” — Finnick Odair
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin
“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
“Part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t want to do… I check in with myself throughout the day and I say, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ and if the answer is no, then I don’t do it. And you shouldn’t either.” — Lady Gaga
“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
“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
“People feel so much shame about [mental health], so if, by talking about it, I can even have an impact on one person, that would be awesome” — Sophie Turner
“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
“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, in an interview with Elle
“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
“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” — Eleanor Brownn
“Slow, deep breathing is important… It’s like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t get rid of the storm, but it will hold you steady until it passes.” — Russ Harris
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Maya Angelou
“Self-care is one of the active ways that I love myself. When you can and as you can, in ways that feel loving, make time and space for yourself.” — Tracee Ellis Ross
“Love belongs to the people who feel they are not enough. Love belongs to the kids who grow up wondering why they’re different. Love belongs to the person reading this right now. Love is for everyone.” — Erin Kingham
“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
“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
“When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.” — Solange Knowles
“In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” — Brené Brown
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” — Buddha
“If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez
“Death will come for all of us but let us fight to live.” — Jamie Tworkowski
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” — Maya Angelou
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglas
“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman
“You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.” — Shonda Rhimes
“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
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green
“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
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” — Glenn Close
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
“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.’”
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.”
“Stigma and self-stigma are some of the most significant barriers surrounding mental health. Pervasive stigma is defined as a negative attitude towards a condition or person which leads to negative action or discrimination.”
“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.“
“Although the general perception of mental illness has improved over the past decades, studies show that stigma against mental illness is still powerful, largely due to media stereotypes and lack of education, and that people tend to attach negative stigmas to mental health conditions at a far higher rate than to other diseases and disabilities, such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease.”
“When mental health is ultimately recognized as essential to physical health, not an extraneous element of it, then we will have access to true, complete, modern medicine.”
“People will need help and support either intermittently or continuously, but their mental health experience no more defines them than their sexuality, gender, personality or any other aspect of their identity.”
“I believe the best way to manage our thoughts is to first educate ourselves. We need to fully understand how a mental illness can feel to someone before we thoughtfully talk about it.”
“We believe that a mental health system that was fully supporting recovery would look different in language, assumptions, theory base and working practices. It would have a natural focus on strengths.”
“Mental health clinicians need to address the issue of stigma, which is so often attached to mental illness. They need to support efforts to prevent mental ill health and promote health, wellness and resilience. Clinicians need to support the rights of people with mental illness, and enable them to participate meaningfully in society.”
“We all add to the stigma surrounding mental illness. I am not trying to call anyone out or make anyone feel bad, but in our own way, we all contribute to the stigma. It could be the way we think about other people with mental illness, or even the way we talk to ourselves about our own struggles.”
“Slow, deep breathing is important… It’s like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t get rid of the storm, but it will hold you steady until it passes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Consequently, actions that successfully improve the overall mental health of the population are likely to be accompanied by other important benefits to society.”
We envisage a society in which mental health problems are an acceptable and in some ways valued part of the human experience.”