- “You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.” ― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak
- “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
- Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health. Lauren Fogel Mersy
- Don’t expect inner peace if you still hate your past. Maxime Lagacé
- “Just like the cosmic forces of Yin and Yang, anger and shame work together to moderate our ego and keep it balanced.” ― Jessica Moore
- “Do not allow yourself to be bogged down by negative thinking.” ― Asa Don Brown
- Well-being is the final stage of self-acceptance. Maxime Lagacé
- Don’t let someone live rent-free in your head if they don’t care about your mental health. @MindTendencies2
- “Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” ― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
- Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. Iyanla Vanzant
- “Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you don’t travel, you’ll regret it. Your soul will forever be empty.” ― S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
- “With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.” ― Beverly Engel, The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
- 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
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. C.S. Lewis
- I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac
- “And time isn’t constant. At least our human perception of time. Einstein theorized that the faster we move, the slower we perceive time to move. The clocks will still tick away at the same rate regardless – but it’s all about the perception of the observer. I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
- “Teach your children to develop a healthy imagination” ― Asa Don Brown
- The highest level of mental health cannot be achieved without a high level of physical health. Train both. Gal Shapira
- “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
- “Go where your energy is reciprocated, appreciated, & celebrated. Audit your engagements; compartmentalize & adjust accordingly.Analyze & reflect on how each person affects you – energies you’re inviting into your space/environment. Do they motivate you or keep you stagnant?” ― Cheyanne Ratnam
- “Superficiality breeds insecurity, simplicity breeds contentment.” ― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
- If you want to create a depressed population, I couldn’t think of a better way than our modern society: 24/7 news cycle, addiction to social media, inflammatory foods, no sun, sedentary lifestyle. It’s not a coincidence that mental health issues are on the rise. @ketoaurelius
- “Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one’s natural self.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- Start prioritizing your mental health instead of adjusting to toxic spaces. Thema Bryant-Davis
- “The majority of research-related articles I read move automatically towards suggestions for doing something to the brain – finding new medications, applying techniques to train the brain, and other ways of treating the brain like an object that is separate from ourselves. In addition to this objectification, there is perhaps the greater danger that when we are viewing ourselves or another that way, we have already stepped away from being truly present, so the person being so scrutinized will not feel safe or have a felt sense of being heard, seen, or held. This includes our relationship with ourselves.” ― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
- “It is in moments of shadow that illumination happens.” ― Cheyanne Ratnam
- Lying in bed thinking about what makes you anxious is terrible for your mental health. Get up. Start your day. Get out of the house. It won’t make your problems disappear but it makes you feel better immediately. And that helps you solve them. Mel Robbins
- “We could not hold the burdens on our backs, so we left them in order to find our own way, revealing the world to the innocent so that they could bear their own weight.” ― Nathaniel Luscombe, Faces to the Sun
- Trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you. Gabor Maté
- Give yourself permission to slow down. Gabby Bernstein