1. “The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is: You don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need.” — Demi Lovato
2. “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
3. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” ― Leonard Cohen
4. “I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will never be a burden.” — Sophie Turner
5. “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
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6. “If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez
7. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves” ― Henry David Thoreau
8. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green
9. “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
10. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
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11. “Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” — Raymond McCauley
12. “Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser
13. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
14. “You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. When I was in middle school, I was struggling with severe anxiety and depression and the help and support I received from my family and a therapist saved my life. Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.” — Lili Rhinehart
15. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman
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16. “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
17. “Don’t believe everything you think.” — Unknown
18. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
19. “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.” — Unknown
20. “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
21. “It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.” — Prince Harry
22. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”— Anonymous proverb
23. “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.
24. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
25. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” — Jimmy Dean
26. “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
27. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren
28. “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” — Buddha
29. “It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” — Aisha Mirza
30. “Mental health… is not a destination but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” — Noam Shpancer
