Your mental health is worth more than anyone can give you. Here are 25 mental health quotes to live by when you are struggling.
"Its okay not to be okay"
"Mental health problems dont 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
"Taking care of your mental health is an act of self-love"
"You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone." - Shonda Rhimes
"There is hope even when your brain tells you there isn't" - John Green
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert Schuller
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” - Amy March, from Little Women
“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.” - Anonymous
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” - Raymond McCauley
“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
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” - Fredrick Douglass
"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 Ken
"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
"Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going." - Noam Shpancer, PhD
"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
"Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does." - Mel Robbins
"Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them." – Joubert Botha
“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
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close
