Top 200 Mental Health Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

2. “There is no health without mental health.”

— David Satcher

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Helping Quotes, Health Quotes

3. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.”

— Glenn Close

Also featured in: Helping Quotes, Healing Quotes

4. “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. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Compassion Quotes

5. “Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as they are.”

— Tara Brach

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Healing Quotes

6. “The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Healing Quotes

7. “Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Also featured in: Mindfulness Quotes

8. “As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.”

— Virginia Satir

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes

9. “Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.”

— Aaron T. Beck

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Depression Quotes

10. “The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Health Quotes

11. “It is hard to be happy without a life worth living. This is a fundamental tenet of DBT. Of course, all lives are worth living in reality. No life is not worth living. But what is important is that you experience your life as worth living – one that is satisfying, and one that brings happiness.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Depression Quotes

12. “Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I’m proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Health Quotes, Depression Quotes

13. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Time Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

14. “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

15. “Sleep is the best meditation.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Quality Quotes, Health Quotes, Meditation Quotes

16. “Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

17. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Choices Quotes

18. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

19. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Growth Quotes

20. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

21. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Happy Quotes, Important Quotes

22. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

23. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

24. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

— Melody Beattie

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happy Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Mind Quotes

25. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

— William James

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Inspirational Career Quotes

26. “No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

27. “Smile, breathe, go slowly.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Practice Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

28. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Peace Quotes, Meditation Quotes

29. “Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Care Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

30. “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.

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Healing Quotes, Health Quotes

31. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Peace Quotes

32. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

33. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Interesting Quotes, Optimism Quotes

34. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Practice Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

35. “Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Mindfulness Quotes, Practice Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Meditation Quotes

36. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

37. “Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Encouraging Quotes, Depression Quotes, Pain Quotes

38. “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Quotes About Hope

39. “Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Quotes About Feelings

40. “Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.”

— Tara Brach

Also featured in: Mindfulness Quotes

41. “Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Healing Quotes, Health Quotes, Meditation Quotes

42. “Despair is suffering without meaning.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Suffering Quotes

43. “It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

44. “Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

— Pema Chödrön

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

45. “We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes

46. “Acceptance is the only way out of hell.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Recovery Quotes

47. “Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope.”

— Deepika Padukone

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

48. “It’s a lie to think you’re not good enough. It’s a lie to think you’re not worth anything.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Identity Quotes

49. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Caring Quotes, Survival Quotes

50. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Suffering Quotes