- “Truth? Sometimes I question every last thing I’m doing. Truth? Right now, those questions swirl every damn day. Is this also true for you?Still, we keep moving forward, you and I. We try new things. We doggedly keep on doing the old things because though they may not have worked in the past it doesn’t feel like crazy to continue, it feels like the space of trusting some wild sort of knowing. We love, good and hard. We show up for life. In the midst of depression, insanely messy houses, and bank accounts sliding closer and closer to that fine red line, and panic attacks, and kids who won’t listen but who damn well know how to question and love. And we make stuff. My god, the way we keep on making stuff. Because we can and we have to. Because it’s the only damn thing that feels right when everything else feels a hundred kinds of wrong. We create. Defiant and determined and true. Weary hearts brought to blazing life if only for those wild moments we dance with the muse.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc
- May your heart heal. May you know how lovable you are. May the laughter return to your mouth, the music return to your voice, and the dance return to your feet. Thema Bryant-Davis
- Protect your time, energy, and mental health by being selective about when and how you engage. Thema Bryant-Davis (See also: relationship quotes)
- You will not find great mental health in stagnation. Gal Shapira
- Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. Robert J. Sawyer
- The ultimate list of biohacks and smart drugs: Drink more water, get 8 hours of sleep, walk outside in the sun, leave your phone on silent, read a few pages each day, eat more vegetables and greens, don’t hang out with toxic people, work on projects you care about. James Clear
- “Hope is beautiful.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
- “When people are broken on the outside, society is taught to never be rude to them. When people are broken on the inside, society is taught to rub happiness in their faces and show them how perfect life should be. When someone has half of an arm, you are not supposed to go up to them and show them how great of an arm wrestler you are. But when someone has a broken mind or a broken soul, you’re taught to go up to them and tell them to look for joy in everything. Society has a very long way to go in terms of what it means to heal this world’s broken people.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “Desire arises when we look to the external world to make our internal world feel better.” ― Ashta-Deb, Life Happens to Us: A True Story
- Just keep showing up. Ask for help when you need it. Remember the voices in your head are just voices. You don’t need to act on them. And be kind to yourself because hard experiences are hard. Brad Stulberg
- Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. Iyanla Vanzant
- “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
- “The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.” ― Stefan Molyneux
- “Do not force your mind to get rid of random thoughts, because your brain is simply not capable of doing so. Instead, when you sit to practise meditation, let the thoughts come and go, just don’t serve them tea. Over time, that background noise inside your head would disappear.” ― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
- “Recovery is full of ups and downs.There is no such thing as a linear life.But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.” ― Brittany Burgunder
- “Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn’t to be judged. Repeat the above each day.” ― Brittany Burgunder
- Identification with our mind causes thought to become compulsive. Eckhart Tolle
- Mental health isn’t always about feeling good. As I define it, mental health is about accepting reality on reality’s terms. Drew Pinsky
- “There is a plurality to our being: We are one heart with many parts. We are one psyche holdingmany minds and many psychologies. This opens doors, and they are doors that urgently needopening… while we are not responsible for the conditioning that’s brought us wherewe are now, we are indeed accountable for what we do with it.” ― Ralph De La Rosa
- “So much stress! I am a victim of city lifestyle. Life is so good in villages.” Playing victim like this is a mechanism of mind to get some relief.”My sister-in-law doesn’t respect me.” This thought can cause so much stress to a village woman that she may go into depression and ultimately be ‘possessed by ghosts.’ Stress is equal in villages, if not more.” ― Shunya
- “Sugar is for the body as narcissism is for the soul. Both pleasures kill.” ― Robin Sacredfire
- “The crime against mental health sufferers has to stop & the stigma must be erased. Humanity has to see the real picture of what mental health sufferers truly experience and humans must understand not outcry.” ― Maria Karvouni
- Most of us do not understand ourselves, our various tensions and conflicts, our hopes and fears, which often produce mental and physical disorders. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.” ― Amy Poehler
- “We have a tendency to become detached observers rather than participants. There might also be a sense of disassembling a complex, flowing process to focus on a small part of it. If we expand our focus to include emerging, one of the first changes we may notice is the bodily sense of being in the midst of something, of constant motion, lack of clarity (in the left-hemisphere sense), and unpredictability.” ― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
- “Just like the cosmic forces of Yin and Yang, anger and shame work together to moderate our ego and keep it balanced.” ― Jessica Moore
- “When we talk about our ego as something bad, it’s just self-hatred wearing a spiritual disguise.” ― Ralph De La Rosa, Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs
- “The best medicine is your mindset” ― SeKeithia Johnson
- There is an expiration date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. J.K. Rowling
- “Self-awareness is daily natural self-help.” ― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm