Mental Health Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old mental health quotes, mental health sayings, and mental health proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Mental health having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle. Alain De Botton
It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it. Albert Einstein
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. Albus Dumbledore
Hope is a renewable option If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. Barbara Kingsolver
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind. Bessel van der Kolk
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Bette Davis
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
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level. Carey Mulligan
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. Charles Bukowski
Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene. Dalai Lama
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. Dan Millman
There is no health without mental health David Satcher
It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known. Dr. Seuss
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it Emery Lord
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. Fiona Apple
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. Fred Rogers
There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness. George Vandeman
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation. Glenn Close
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness. Glenn Close
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. Karl A. Menninger
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health. Kate Middleton
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. Kay Redfield Jamison
Self-care is how you take your power back. Lalah Delia
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds Laurell K. Hamilton
Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so. Lemony Snicket
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. Louise Hart
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain
Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come. Martin Luther King