Top 200 Mental Health Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.”

— Chester Bennington

52. “Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world – kids who don’t want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”

— Chester Bennington

53. “Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

54. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

55. “This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need.”

— Kristin Neff

56. “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

57. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”

— Steve Maraboli

58. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

— Ernest Hemingway

59. “You are not your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

60. “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

— Buddha

61. “You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

62. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie ten Boom

63. “Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

— Brené Brown

64. “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

— James Allen

65. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”

— Rumi

66. “Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.”

— Brian Tracy

67. “If you don’t love yourself, it’s impossible for you to love others. You can’t give away what you don’t have.”

— Joyce Meyer

68. “The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.”

— Robin S. Sharma

69. “If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

70. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— C.G. Jung

71. “I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”

— Louise Hay

72. “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”

— Bruce Lee

73. “Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”

— Brené Brown

74. “Meditation makes you sharper, happier, and intuitive. Don’t you want intuition? Don’t you want the right thought to come to you at the right time?”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

75. “Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside.”

— Eckhart Tolle

76. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

— Brené Brown

77. “The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.”

— Rollo May

78. “Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.”

— Brené Brown

79. “If it can be solved, there’s no need to worry, and if it can’t be solved, worry is of no use.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

80. “My philosophy is to “kill the monster while it’s little.” The best time to handle a “negative” emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It’s much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it’s full-blown.”

— Tony Robbins

81. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

— Brené Brown

82. “We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”

— Eckhart Tolle

83. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”

— Brené Brown

84. “Compassion is not a virtue – it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have – it’s something we choose to practice.”

— Brené Brown

85. “Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

— Eckhart Tolle

86. “You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

87. “Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.”

— Shawn Achor

88. “To love others you must first love yourself.”

— Leo Buscaglia

89. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

90. “We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.”

— Brené Brown

91. “Feel the feelings and drop the story.”

— Pema Chödrön

92. “Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.”

— Charles Eisenstein

93. “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.”

— Byron Katie

94. “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”

— Franz Kafka

95. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

— Nhat Hanh

96. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

97. “Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.”

— Earl Nightingale

98. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”

— Stephen R. Covey

99. “Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.”

— Denis Waitley

100. “Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings.”

— Arianna Huffington