Top 200 Mental Health Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.”

— Byron Katie

152. “It’s a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.”

— Demi Lovato

153. “If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.”

— Sydney Banks

154. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. It does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. It is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.”

— Corrie ten Boom

155. “Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

156. “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

157. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

— J.K. Rowling

158. “Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.”

— Louise Hay

159. “Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It’s like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really ‘arrive,’ but we certainly know that we’re heading in the right direction.”

— Brené Brown

160. “Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.”

— Kelly McGonigal

161. “Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.”

— Eckhart Tolle

162. “Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.”

— Brené Brown

163. “Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

164. “Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

165. “Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

166. “Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.”

— Byron Katie

167. “Memories consume Like opening the wound I’m picking me apart again You all assume I’m safe here in my room Unless I try to start again.”

— Linkin Park

168. “We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.”

— Gabor Maté

169. “You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

170. “The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.”

— Bessel van der Kolk

171. “If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.”

— Ram Dass

172. “Don’t live your life to please other people.”

— Oprah Winfrey

173. “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.”

— Mariska Hargitay

174. “Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.”

— Joyce Meyer

175. “Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

176. “The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

177. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”

— Brené Brown

178. “I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.”

— Demi Lovato

179. “I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.”

— David Sheff

180. “Happiness is the highest form of health.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

181. “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”

— Robert Holden

182. “Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

— Eckhart Tolle

183. “Self-compassion is a way of emotionally recharging our batteries. Rather than becoming drained by helping others, self-compassion allows us to fill up our internal reserves, so that we have more to give to those who need us.”

— Kristin Neff

184. “Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.”

— Martha N. Beck

185. “I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.”

— Louise Hay

186. “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”

— John Steinbeck

187. “If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”

— S. N. Goenka

188. “Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.”

— Leon Brown

189. “The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

— Eckhart Tolle

190. “The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

191. “No matter what the issue is, don’t try to justify why you don’t feel good. And don’t try to justify why you should feel differently. Don’t try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that’s keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.”

— Esther Hicks

192. “Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry.”

— Eckhart Tolle

193. “It’s OK to not be OK – just don’t stay there.”

— Matt Chandler

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

195. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”

— Roy Bennett

196. “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

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

— C.G. Jung

198. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

— Milton Berle

199. “The past has no power over the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

200. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”

— Joyce Meyer