Words of encouragement from insightful people can help you feel empowered and ready for a new day.

For World Mental Health Day 2024, October 10, we have compiled quotes from advocates, experts and authors who have discussed mental health over the past six decades.

Here are 10 quotes that address the challenges of mental health and the tools you can use to improve yours.

“You think your pain and heartbreak are unparalleled in the history of the world, but then you read.”

-James Baldwin, Life Magazine (1963)

“Loneliness will come and go as often as it pleases throughout human life.”

– Sam Carr, the self-proclaimed scholar of loneliness, told CNBC Make It (2024)

“Twenty-five years ago we would not have dreamed that one day people could actually recover from mental illness. Today this is a very real possibility.”

– Rosalynn Carter, said at a mental health symposium (2003)

“Healing takes time and asking for help is a courageous step.”

– Mariska Hargitay

“You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.”

– Toni Morrison, “The Work You Do, the Person You Are” in The New Yorker (2017)

“Every person deserves a day off where they don’t deal with problems and look for solutions. Each of us must withdraw from the worries that refuse to escape us.”

– Maya Angelou, “Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now” (1993)

“We have to have boundaries to prevent burnout.”

– Molly Burrets, a licensed clinical psychologist, told CNBC Make It (2024)

“Speak to yourself like you would someone you love.”

– Brene Brown

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be meditation, but in quiet periods when we slow down, we can understand what is coming, we can feel and make the conscious choice to live in the present moment.”

– Floyd “Ski” Chilton, author of “There is Another Way to Happiness,” told CNBC Make It (2024)

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

– John Green, “Turtles All the Way Down” (2017)

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