May 12, 2018 \u2022 By GoodTherapy Staff<\/p>\n
This Mental Health Awareness Month<\/a>, GoodTherapy seeks to emphasize that mental health is a human experience. Symptoms and circumstances of mental health concerns come in nearly unlimited variation. But they are, above all, a normal part of being alive. We must care for not only our bodies, but also our emotions and thoughts.<\/p>\n We have gathered here a selection of quotes about mental health. These are encouraging words about overcoming obstacles, seeking help<\/a>, and stopping shame<\/a>. You can share any of these images on your social media profiles or download them for your own use. To help spread awareness this mental health month, you can use the hashtags #MHAM2019 and #4Mind4Body.<\/p>\n Like GoodTherapy.org on Facebook<\/a> or follow us on Pinterest<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> for more!<\/p>\n \u201cMany survivors insist they\u2019re not courageous: \u2018If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.\u2019 \u2018If I were courageous, I wouldn\u2019t be scared\u2019\u2026 Most of us have it mixed up. You don\u2019t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.\u201d \u2015 Laura Davis<\/p>\n \u201cI keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.\u201d \u2015 Jonathan Harnisch<\/p>\n “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn\u2019t.” \u2014 John Green<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I\u2019m not going to make it, but you laugh inside\u2014remembering all the times you\u2019ve felt that way.\u201d \u2014 Charles Bukowski<\/p>\n “Deep breathing is our nervous system\u2019s love language.” \u2014 Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy<\/p>\n “It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” \u2014 Aisha Mirza<\/p>\n Change what you can, manage what you can\u2019t.\u200a\u2014\u200aRaymond McCauley<\/p>\n “Mental health\u2026is not a destination, but a process. It\u2019s about how you drive, not where you\u2019re going.” \u2014 Noam Shpancer, PhD<\/p>\n \u201cYou 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\u2019ll ever know.\u201d \u2014 Lili Reinhart<\/p>\n \u201cIncreasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.\u201d \u2015 Mokokoma Mokhonoana<\/p>\n \u201cIn the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.\u201d \u2014 Albert Camus<\/p>\n “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” \u2015 Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a crack in everything, that\u2019s how the light gets in\u201d \u2015 Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” \u2014 Aristotle<\/p>\n “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars.”<\/p>\n \u2014 Khalil Gibran<\/p>\n “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.”<\/p>\n \u2014 Nido Qubein<\/p>\n \u201cI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.\u201d \u2014 Amy March, from Little Women<\/p>\n \u201cPromise me you\u2019ll always remember \u2014 you\u2019re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.\u201d \u2014 Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh<\/p>\n \u201cI 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.\u201d \u2014 Anonymous<\/p>\n \u201cI understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I\u2019ve 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.\u201d \u2014 Sophie Turner<\/p>\n \u201cMental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let\u2019s raise the awareness. Let\u2019s let everybody know it\u2019s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem.\u201d \u2014 Demi Lovato<\/p>\n If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you\u2019re a badass with a heart of an angel.\u200a\u2014\u200aKeanu Reeves<\/p>\n I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you\u2019re not alone. You\u2019re not the first to go through it; you\u2019re not going to be the last to go through it.\u200a\u2014\u200aDwayne Johnson (The Rock)<\/p>\n \u201cAnyone 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\u2019t we talking about it?\u201d \u2014 Kristen Bell<\/p>\n \u201cI go to therapy. It\u2019s just one of the most important things \u2014 to get to know yourself. Not saying everyone in the world has to do it, but I do think that it\u2019s helped me understand myself and my childhood a lot better.\u201d In a conversation about her Bipolar Disorder battle.- Selena Gomez<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a lot of shame attached to mental illness, but it\u2019s important that you know that there is hope and a chance for recovery.\u201d-Lady Gaga<\/p>\n \u201cIf my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help. \u2013Catherine Zeta-Jones<\/p>\n \u201cI was with someone recently who asked: \u2018Well, don\u2019t you think that if you do too much therapy it will take away your artistic process?\u2019 And I told them: \u2018The biggest lie that we\u2019ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create.’\u201d \u2014 Katy Perry<\/p>\n \u201cDepression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don\u2019t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you\u2019ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river \u2014 and you\u2019ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.\u201d \u2015 Alysha Speer<\/p>\n \u201cYou say you\u2019re \u2018depressed\u2019 \u2013 all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re defective \u2013 it just means you\u2019re human.\u201d \u2015 David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas<\/p>\n \u201cMental 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.’ \u2015 C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain<\/p>\n \u201cOthers imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You\u2019re frightened, and you\u2019re frightening, and you\u2019re \u2018not at all like yourself but will be soon,\u2019 but you know you won\u2019t.\u201d \u2015 Kay Redfield Jamison<\/p>\n \u201cThe 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.\u201d \u2014 Jonathan Harnisch<\/p>\n \u201cDepression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.\u201d \u2013 Janet Fitch<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn\u2019t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I\u2019d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.\u201d \u2015 Sylvia Plath<\/p>\n \u201cI need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.\u201d \u2014 Marilyn Monroe<\/p>\n \u201cSo many people look at [my depression] as me being ungrateful, but that is not it \u2014 I can\u2019t help it. There\u2019s not much that I\u2019m closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don\u2019t have to be something they\u2019re not or feel like they have to fake happy. There\u2019s nothing worse than being fake happy.\u201d \u2014 Miley Cyrus<\/p>\n \u201cThe 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.\u201d \u2015 William Styron<\/p>\n \u201cMy anxiety doesn\u2019t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.\u201d \u2014 Hugh Prather<\/p>\n \u201cNo need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.\u201d \u2014Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n \u201cThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.\u201d \u2014Epictetus<\/p>\n \u201cAnxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.\u201d \u2014 Charles Spurgeon<\/p>\n \u201cWorrying is carrying tomorrow\u2019s load with today\u2019s strength-carrying two days at once. Worrying doesn\u2019t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.\u201d \u2013 Corrie Ten Boom<\/p>\n \u201cAnxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.\u201d \u2014Charles Spurgeon<\/p>\n \u201cAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.\u201d \u2015Soren Kierkegaard<\/p>\n \u201cNothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.\u201d \u2014 Walter Anderson<\/p>\n \u201cFeelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.\u201d \u2014 Thich Nhat Hanh<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.\u201d \u2014Dan Millman<\/p>\n \u201cEvery one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.\u201d \u2014 Princess Diana<\/p>\n \u201cThe secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.\u201d \u2014 Mark Twain<\/p>\n “Self-care is how you take your power back.” \u2014 Lalah Delia<\/p>\n \u201cSelf-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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Tracee Ellis Ross<\/p>\n \u201cSelf-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn\u2019t last, but meditating every day does.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Carrie Anne Moss<\/p>\n \u201cTo accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.\u201d \u2014 Sandra Bierig<\/p>\n \u201cLoving yourself isn\u2019t vanity. It\u2019s sanity.\u201d \u2014 Katrina Mayer<\/p>\n \u201cWith every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Susan Weiss Berry<\/p>\n \u201cBeauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.\u201d \u2014 Coco Chanel<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Faith Hill<\/p>\n \u201cWe need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.\u201d \u2014 John Green<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to go through tough times \u2013 that\u2019s life. But I say, \u2018Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.\u2019 See the positive in negative events. \u201c- Joel Osteen<\/p>\n “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. \u2014 Thich Nhat Hanh<\/p>\n “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. \u2014 Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive<\/p>\n \u201cI will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.\u201d \u2014 Og Mandino<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.\u201d- J. R. R. Tolkien<\/p>\n \u201cI learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I\u2019ve bought a big bat. I\u2019m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.\u201d – Dr. Seuss<\/p>\n “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising whenever we fall.” – Confucius<\/p>\n Many people find themselves personally involved with the topic of mental health. We may be affected when a loved one experiences a mental health issue. Knowing what to say, how to act, or what we can do to help is not always clear. Other times, we might be the one who is struggling. Anxiety<\/a>, depression<\/a>, trauma<\/a>\u2014these conditions and others have affected billions around the world and throughout history.<\/p>\nQuotes About Positive Mental Health to Give You Strength<\/h2>\n
Mental Health Quotes from Celebrities<\/h2>\n
Quotes About Depression<\/h2>\n
Quotes About Anxiety<\/h2>\n
Mental Health Quotes About Self-Care and Taking Care of Your Mind<\/h2>\n
Reminders That This Too Shall Pass<\/h2>\n