Here is a collection of 71 inspiring mental health self care quotes to help you recover.
Mental Health Quotes
1. “If you’re broken, you do not have to stay broken.” ~Selena Gomez
2. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” ~Joubert Botha
3. “Do not give your past the power to define your future.” ~Dhiren Prajapat
4. “The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.” ~Deepak Chopra
5. “Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution.” ~Albert Einstein
6. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” ~Fred Rogers
7. “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
8. “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
9. “There is hope even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” ~John Green
10. “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
Mental Health Self Care Quotes
11. “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
12. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.” ~Nido Qubein
13. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “You didn’t come this far to only come this far.” ~Tom Brady
15. “Self-love, it is obvious, always remains positive and active in our natures.” ~Gordon W. Allport
16. “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
17. “Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” ~Napoleon Hill
18. “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?” ~Abertoli
19. “Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.” ~Grandmother Willow
20. “You are capable of creating the life you want. Be patient with yourself.” ~Anonymous
Mental Health Awareness Quotes
21. “Healing takes time and asking for help is a courageous step.” ~Mariska Hargitay
22. “The strongest people are those who win battles we know nothing about.” ~Anonymous
23. “She is a 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
24. “You are not alone.” ~Unknown
25. “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
26. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” ~Maya Angelou
27. “Sometimes we’re testing not show our weaknesses but to discover our strengths.
28. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you that there isn’t.” ~John Green
29. “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.” ~Anonymous
30. “Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.” ~Mason Cooley
Positive Mental Health Quotes
31. “The ultimate goal of the therapist is not to provide his patients with a series of intellectual insights but to help them change their lives.” ~Aaron T. Beck
32. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” ~Alice and The Looking Glass
33. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how light gets in.” ~Leonard Cohen
34. “I am brave. I am bruised. I am who I’m meant to be. This is me.” ~The Greatest Showman
35. “You are not broken, you are breaking through.” ~Alex Myles
36. “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
37. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ~Maya Angelou
38. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~William James
39. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” ~Lemony Snicket
40. “I fight for my health every day in ways most people don’t understand. I’m not lazy. I’m a warrior.” ~Anonymous
Mental Strength Quotes
41. “It’s okay not to be okay.” ~Unknown
42. “Setbacks don’t equal failure. You’re allowed to set boundaries. You are more than an illness. It’s okay to rest.” ~Unknown
43. “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
44. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~Lord Buddha
45. “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
46. “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
47. “Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don’t come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you’re human. Failure is a part of creating a great life.” ~Les Brown
48. “You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” ~Kody Keplinger
49. “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” ~Bill Clinton
50. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will surface later in an uglier form.” ~Sigmund Freud
Mental Toughness Quotes
51. “What does not become conscious manifests in our lives as destiny.” ~Carl Gustav Jung
52. “Show yourself the same love, empathy, and patience you show to those around you.” ~Unknown
53. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.” ~Glenn Close
54. “Your illness does not define you. Your strength and courage does.” ~Unknown
55. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~Fredrick Douglass
56. “Things not to say to someone with mental illness: Ignore it, Forget about it, You are better than this or You are over thinking.” ~Nitya Prakash
57. “Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” ~Lauren Fogel Mersy
58. “When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.” ~Donald Miller
59. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ~Napoleon Hill
60. “No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or 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
Inspirational Quotes For Mental Health
61. “It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s okay to disassociate. It’s okay to hide from the world. It’s okay to need help. It’s okay not to be okay. Your mental illness is not a personal failure.” ~Anonymous
62. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” ~Lemony Snicket
63. “You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” ~Unknown
64. “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” ~Susan Cain
65. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~John Wooden
66. “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
67. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” ~Glenn Close
68. “Don’t be ashamed of your story. It will inspire others.” ~J M Skinner
69. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ~Albus Dumbledore
70. “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 Kent
71. “You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.” ~Shonda Rhimes
