50 Mental Illness Quotes to Help You Accept Yourself and Go Through Hard Times

1. “Just remember, you are not alone, in fact, you are in a very commonplace with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals.” - Mike Moreno

2. "Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone." - Alan Watts

3. “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it.” - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

4. “The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not” - Elyn R. Saks

5. "You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone." - Shonda Rhimes

6. "Don't ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone." - Nancy Reagan

7. "God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire." - Sheila Walsh

8. "Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope" - Deepika Padukone

9. "If you're going through a dark period, remember that you're not alone." - Demi Lovato

10. "So if you feel as if you feel too much, well then you are not alone. May these words find you like a friend." - Jamie Tworkowski

1. "There is no health without mental health." - David Satcher

2. "We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list." - Michelle Obama

3. "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

4. "It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life." - Leon Brown

5. "Take care of yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually so that you can take care of the world." - Susan Love

6. "When women take care of their health they become their own best friend." - Maya Angelou

7. "You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down." - Paulo Coelho

8. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball

9. "If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy." - Kristin Chenoweth

10. "Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." - Wilferd Peterson

1. "Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all." - William J. Clinton

2. “It’s okay not to be okay.” - Unknown

3. "Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person." - Denis Waitley

4. "Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets." - Henry A. Kissinger

5. "I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK." - William Sloane Coffin

6. "Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself." - Tyra Banks

7. "It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break." - Billy Joel

8. "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

9. "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

10. "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

11. "Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." - Stephen Chbosky

12. "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

13. "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 you are not the rain." - Matt Haig

14. "Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness." - Iyanla Vanzant

15. “I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up.” - Anonymous

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

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

3. “Tough times never last, but tough people do!” - Robert Schuller

4. “I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.” - Jonathan Harnisch

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

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

7. “Promise me you’ll always remember — you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” - Christopher Robin

8. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” - Aristotle

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

10. "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. - Thich Nhat Hanh

11. "There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t." - John Green

12. "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau

13. "Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language." - Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

14. "You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you." - Dan Millman

15. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” - Fredrick Douglass