Inspirational mental quotes will fire up your brain and inspire you to look at life differently.
Famous Mental Health Quotes
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. – Adam Ant
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. – Carl Jung
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. – Albus Dumbledore
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
Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them. – Joubert Botha
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. – Erich Fromm
This feeling will pass. The fear is real, but the danger is not. – Cammie McGovern
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
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. – Ana Castillo
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation. – Glenn Close
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell – Renata Adler
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
Hope, hope, hope. It has to be there. Rob the person of hope, and there won’t be any recovery. – Dan Fisher
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
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
Everyone has a moral backside, which he won’t show unless he has to, keeping it covered as long as possible with the pants of respectability. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
I may have looked happy but inside Iwas hopelessly depressed. – Stephen Fry
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 really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad. – William Heath Robinson
I’ve run my whole life – for more than exercise, for mental health. – Wendelin Van Draanen
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done. – Bo Bennett
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
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. – Patricia Neal
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
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet. – Rodney Dangerfield
The only journey is the journey within. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. – Philip K. Dick
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. – Flannery O’Connor
I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity . – Edgar Allen Poe
Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether. – Stephanie Garber
There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. – Josh Billings
One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you we’re put to the test and you didn’t fall apart – Linda Poindexter
And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too. – Miley Cyrus
It is those of us who have been broken that become experts at mending. – Dr. Steve Maraboli
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. – Emery Lord
I love the person I’ve become, because I fought to become her – Kaci Diane
The acknowledgment of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. – Stefan Molyneux
A wise therapist taught me that anger is the emotion we snatch up to avoid less comfortable feelings – confusion, fear, sadness. – Jill Herzig
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
Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character. – Pastor Rick Warren
Each time you set a healthy boundary, you say “”yes”” to more freedom. – Nancy Levin
To think too much is a disease. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up. – Robert Tew
Talking won’t change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness. – Melissa Marr
Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so. –Lemony Snicket
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. – Plutarch
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
Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going. – Noam Shpancer
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. – Alan Watts
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
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at. – Louis C.K
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
Depression is the inability to construct – Rollo May
