Top 200 Mental Health Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

— Franz Kafka

102. “Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; it makes us value the inner world; it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.”

— Deepak Chopra

103. “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

— Brené Brown

104. “The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

105. “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

— Anthony de Mello

106. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

107. “There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

108. “Nothing about us without us.”

— Judi Chamberlin

109. “In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

— Nhat Hanh

110. “Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.”

— Brené Brown

111. “I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.”

— Louise Hay

112. “What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.”

— Brené Brown

113. “Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.”

— Joyce Meyer

114. “Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does.”

— Anita Moorjani

115. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

116. “Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

117. “Even those who never frown eventually break down.”

— Linkin Park

118. “I’m most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.”

— Stephen King

119. “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

— Sylvia Plath

120. “Always listen to your inner voice.”

— Oprah Winfrey

121. “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”

— Maya Angelou

122. “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

123. “If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

124. “Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.”

— Michael Gungor

125. “You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.”

— Louise Hay

126. “Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

127. “Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people – people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.”

— Jack Canfield

128. “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”

— Pema Chödrön

129. “Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

130. “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”

— Carl R. Rogers

131. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it’s accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.”

— Oprah Winfrey

132. “The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

133. “I realise that stress is only fear. I now release all fears.”

— Louise Hay

134. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

— Nathaniel Branden

135. “Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.”

— Nhat Hanh

136. “The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

— Bruce D. Perry

137. “Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.”

— Louise Hay

138. “To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.”

— Pema Chödrön

139. “There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.”

— Esther Hicks

140. “Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.”

— Jon Gordon

141. “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

142. “If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.”

— Nhat Hanh

143. “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

144. “Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

145. “Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”

— Virginia Satir

146. “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

147. “Be happy now, without reason – or you never will be at all.”

— Dan Millman

148. “I am my best friend. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me.”

— Louise Hay

149. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

— Nhat Hanh

150. “Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”

— Brené Brown