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127 Powerful Mental Health Quotes That Tell It How It Is

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Society isn’t a stagnant unit - it’s forever evolving and always in search of ways to better our existence, make ourselves more comfortable in our lives, teaching us how to be more in control and in love with ourselves. And while some of the means that society takes in fulfilling this quest are quite dubious, most of them are worthy of a standing ovation. One of the more recent such means is erasing the stigma surrounding a person’s mental health and celebrating taking care of yourself from within. Truly a thing that we should have done earlier, but hey, better late than never! And our way of appreciating mental health, besides sharing a copious amount of real stories and other tips for self-help, is by giving you our moving selection of Mental Health quotes to read, memorize, and live by.

Some of these inspiring quotes might hit a painful spot for some, for they truly speak about the mammoth task of overcoming the dark stuff that your psyche spews at you. However, such a learning process sometimes needs to be accelerated by an imaginary leg moving towards your rump at a high velocity. Yet not all of these smart quotes have the effect of uprooting your mind - some are purely pleasant reminders that you are the most important person in your life. A reminder that we surely should hear every day!

Hoping that our intro piqued your interest in what’s to come, we would now like to suggest that you scroll down below and check out these heartwarming quotes for yourself! Once you are there, give these self-help quotes a thumbs up and share this uplifting article with your friends.

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#1

“If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with a heart of an angel.” — Keanu Reeves

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Zophra 2 years ago

Anything Keanu says it golden.I admire him very much. :)

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#2

“Society is collapsing, and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.” ― Russell Brand

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Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 2 years ago

Ugh I hate him but he might be right

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#3

“Promise me you’ll always remember — you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh

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#4

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

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Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 2 years ago

But what if I don’t

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#5

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

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Sojourner 3 weeks ago

No thanks, I'd rather kill myself :)

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#6

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” — Glenn Close

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Harold Maio 2 years ago

When Ms Close says there is a stigma to mental health issues, remind her of her prejudice.

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#7

“The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” — Mama Indigo

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Casey Burns 2 years ago

This is one of the most relatable and beautiful quotes I've ever read.

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#8

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung

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#9

“Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?” ― Julie Schumacher

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#10

“Don’t believe everything you think.”

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Harold Maio 2 years ago

Don’t believe everything you think. hear or read.

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#11

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” ― Matt Haig

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#12

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore

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#13

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus

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MarmotArchivist 2 years ago

Beautiful image.

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#14

“Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.”

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Sojourner 3 weeks ago

For me, they feed on negative news.

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#15

“You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.” – Lori Deschene

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Samantha 2 years ago

I wish I could go back and tell my childhood self this. My parents, too.

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#16

“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

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#17

"Change what you can, manage what you can’t." ― Raymond McCauley

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#18

“Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.” ― Nathaniel Branden

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#19

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Amy March

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#20

“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Sojourner 3 weeks ago

MLK!

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#21

“Life gets better when health becomes your first priority.“ — Maxime Lagacé

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#22

“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman

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#23

“Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Rick Warren

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#24

“Start prioritizing your mental health instead of adjusting to toxic spaces.“ — Thema Bryant-Davis

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#25

“Pay careful attention to anything you try to hide.” — Gretchen Rubin

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#26

“Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language.”

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#27

“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.” ― Cammie McGovern

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#28

“It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.” ― Sarah Wilson

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#29

“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

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#30

“The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.” — Beyoncé

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#31

“Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.“ — Mel Robbins

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#32

“Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.“ — Eckhart Tolle

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#33

“You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” — Kody Keplinger

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#34

“Being vulnerable is actually a strength and not a weakness — that’s why more and more mental health is such an important thing to talk about. It’s the same as being physically sick. And when you keep all those things inside, when you bottle them up, it makes you ill.” — Cara Delevingne

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#35

“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” — Abraham Maslow

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#36

“Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser

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#37

“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.” – Carl Jung

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#38

“We are not our trauma. We are not our brain chemistry. That’s part of who we are, but we’re so much more than that.” ― Sam J. Miller

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#39

”We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it’s actually a strength. It’s not a weak move to say, ‘I need help.’ In the long run it’s way better, because you have to fix it.” — Jon Hamm

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#40

“The highest level of mental health cannot be achieved without a high level of physical health. Train both.“ — Gal Shapira

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#41

“At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your let or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distinction.“ — Michelle Obama

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Harold Maio 2 years ago

Remind Ms Obama of that when she says there is a stigma to mental illnesses.

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#42

“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.“ — Haruki Murakami

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#43

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”
― Augusten Burroughs

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#44

“All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.” ― Asa Don Brown

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#45

“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.” ― Gabor Maté

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#46

“Trying to please everyone is a guaranteed prescription for unhappiness. The first step toward emotional freedom is realizing that you’re not for everyone.“ ― Shane Parrish

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#47

“Mental health isn’t always about feeling good. As I define it, mental health is about accepting reality on reality’s terms.“ ― Drew Pinsky

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#48

“Your mental health is a priority. Your happiness is an essential. Your self-care is a necessity.”

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#49

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz

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#50

“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” — Linda Poindexter

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#51

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green

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#52

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran

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#53

“Recovery is not one and done. It is a lifelong journey that takes place one day, one step at a time.”

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#54

“Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia

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#55

“Let your story go. Allow yourself to be present with who you are right now.” – Russ Kyle

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#56

“Emotional pain is not something that should be hidden away and never spoken about. There is truth in your pain, there is growth in your pain, but only if it’s first brought out into the open.” — Steven Aitchison

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#57

“Tough times never last, but tough people do!” — Robert Schuller

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#58

“There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.” — Howie Mandel

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#59

“Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.” — Lisa Olivera

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#60

“Sometimes self care is exercise and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pajamas. Whatever soothes your soul.” — Nanea Hoffman

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#61

“That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren’t ready, then you weren’t ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.” ― Norah Vincent

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#62

“If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson

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#63

“I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better — and maybe not all that much better after all.” — Stephen King

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#64

“I cannot stand the words “Get over it”. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow other to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK.” – Beau Taplin

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#65

“There’s nothing that makes my pain worse or better than yours, no graph on which we can plot the relative importance of one sorrow versus another.” — Edith Eva Eger

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#66

“A failure is not a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.“ — B. F. Skinner

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#67

“As you reflect back on the previous weeks, months or year, look for moments you can celebrate too. There will be some, even if you have to look a little harder.” — Emily Coxhead

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#68

“When I don’t pay attention to my feelings, I tend to put up with situations and people longer than I should.” — Allyson Dinneen

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#69

“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha

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#70

“Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There’s only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.” ― Tori Spelling

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#71

“And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.” — Miley Cyrus

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#72

“Mental health… is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer

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#73

“To think too much is a disease.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#74

“Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.” — Matt Haig

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#75

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” — Astrid Alauda

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#76

“You look at me and cry; everything hurts. I hold you and whisper: but everything can heal.” – Rupi Kaur

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#77

“If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez

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#78

“Let us commit to asking others, ‘Are you okay?’” — Meghan Markle

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#79

“When we know ourselves—the sources of our stress, how we respond, and what actions help us recharge—we’re far better able to minimize the damage. We can’t eliminate stress, but we can learn to manage it.” — Arianna Huffington

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#80

”We all walk around sometimes feeling like we have an elephant on our chest, but we’re not alone, and we’re not less than because of that. We’re not unlovable because of that.” — Anne Hathaway

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#81

“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.“ — Alain de Botton

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#82

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful parts of us.“ — David Richo

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#83

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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#84

“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

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#85

“We don't create our feelings; they simply come to us, and we have to accept them. The trick is, to welcome them.” ― Hector Garcia Puigcerver

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#86

“Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don’t come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you’re human. Failure is a part of creating a great life.” ― Les Brown

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#87

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” ― Mo Willems

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#88

“Take your time healing, as long as you want. Nobody else knows what you’ve been through. How could they know how long it will take to heal you?” — Abertoli

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#89

“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord

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#90

“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” — Adam Ant

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#91

“Start listening to the way you talk to yourself. These interactions will tell you how well you know yourself, how much you respect yourself, and what boundaries you are lacking.” — Sara Kuburic

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#92

“The gentlest reminder: You might not need to read another self-help book, attend another training, or bookmark another Instagram post as much as you need to listen to, trust, and practice what you already know. What if the answer you’re looking for is actually within you already?” — Lisa Olivera

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#93

“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” – Diane Abbott

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#94

“There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.” — Jared Padalecki

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#95

“Is stress inflicted on you — or created by you?”― Frank Sonnenberg

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#96

“It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s okay to disassociate. It’s okay to hide from the world. It’s okay to need help. It’s okay not to be okay. Your mental illness is not a personal failure.”

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#97

“You will emerge from this nightmare like the powerful, beautiful, resilient person that you are. It can be hard to remember this when you feel like a shell of the person you once were. But trust me: You are capable of overcoming so much more than you think.”

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#98

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

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#99

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau

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#100

“It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.” – Amy Poehler

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#101

“Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.” – Dean Karnazes

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#102

“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.” – Stephen Levine

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#103

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” — Jimmy Dean

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#104

“What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with.” — Pink

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#105

“You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” — Julian Seifter

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#106

“Feelings mean we're human. And when we deny our humanity, it leaves us feeling empty inside, searching for ways to self-medicate in order to fill the void…. These days I share my story openly, and I ask others to share theirs too. I believe that's what it takes to help people who may be suffering in silence to know that they are not alone and to know that with help, they can heal.” — Nikki Webber Allen

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#107

“You may have depression, but you are not depression. Stop telling yourself you are. Wake up every day and tell yourself that your thoughts and your words belong to you. No one is allowed to undermine who you are by defining you on their terms. Depression is a disease, a collection of symptoms. It is not a human being. It is not a person.” — Shaun David Hutchinson

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#108

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.“ — C.S. Lewis

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#109

“Loving thoughts and actions are clearly beneficial for our physical and mental health.“ — 14th Dalai Lama

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#110

“With inner strength or mental stability, we can endure all kinds of adversity.“ —14th Dalai Lama

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#111

“Seeing a therapist doesn’t mean you’re crazy, or bad, or sick. A therapist is like… a guide. He knows the signs, the roads, the pits. He can help you find the pain inside, acknowledge it and its cause, and get past it.“ — Steven Gould

7points

#112

“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not our there is that it’s inside us.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky

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#113

“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

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#114

“Anyone can be affected [by mental illness] despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?” — Kristen Bell

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#115

“I would say what others have said: It gets better. One day, you’ll find your tribe. You just have to trust that people are out there waiting to love you and celebrate you for who you are. In the meantime, the reality is you might have to be your own tribe. You might have to be your own best friend. That’s not something they’re going to teach you in school. So start the work of loving yourself. — Wentworth Miller

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#116

“Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn’t be scared’… Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” ― Laura Davis

2points

#117

“If you stumble, make it part of the dance.“

2points

#118

“You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are.“ — Max Lucado

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#119

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." — Charlie Chaplin

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#120

“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” ― Brené Brown

2points

#121

“But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.” ― Katie Kacvinsky

2points

#122

“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” — Katrina Mayer

2points

#123

“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” — Billy Graham

2points

#124

“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” — Alice Walker

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#125

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

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#126

“No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.” — Karen Salmansohn

1point

#127

“Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.” — Jonathan Van Ness

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Justė is a copywriter here at Bored Panda, and though her studies at the Veterinary Academy seemingly have nothing to do with writing, the passion for animals and nature helps in creating the most interesting and engaging posts. She also works with Search Engine Optimization, so you could find Bored Panda's articles easier. Justė's not only an avid equestrian, but she's also a walking encyclopedia. Ask her anything!

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

All the above. If only. I can read these all day, everyday, they speak the truth a lot of the time, but I cannot practice what they preach. I feel like I need an epiphany, feel like I am waiting for an epiphany, that never arrives. And the hard work that is sometimes needed? Is so overwhelming. I am in a pit that keeps getting deeper every time I try to climb out.

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Sojourner 3 weeks ago

Advocate for assisted suicide.

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

All the above. If only. I can read these all day, everyday, they speak the truth a lot of the time, but I cannot practice what they preach. I feel like I need an epiphany, feel like I am waiting for an epiphany, that never arrives. And the hard work that is sometimes needed? Is so overwhelming. I am in a pit that keeps getting deeper every time I try to climb out.

2points

Sojourner 3 weeks ago

Advocate for assisted suicide.

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