Nicole Dake
Aug 23, 20235 min
If you are having a bad mental health day, it can help to say affirmations, or read motivational quotes to feed your brain with positivity. Saying something positive can help to counteract your mind's negative mental bias.
According to Scribbr,
Under negativity bias, we are inclined to internalize negative experiences more deeply, causing us to worry and dwell on small things. For example, we may obsess over a comment we made at a party and later regret or focus on the fact that someone cut in line in front of us. Even if the rest of our day was neutral or positive, these minor incidents can carry a disproportionately large weight and impact our mood.
When we are having a bad day, or our mood is down in the dumps, we are likely to fall into the trap of the negativity bias more than ever. So, it is the times we are struggling the most that we need to try to focus our minds back to something positive.
The more you focus on good outcomes and possibilities instead of on negative things that have happened or that might happen, it improves your outlook on life incredibly!
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'— Audrey Hepburn
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.— Walt Whitman
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.- Winston Churchill
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others. - Stephen R. Covey
We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. - R.M. Drake
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great. - Alyssa Milano
Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others. - Jasmine Warga
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. - Christopher Morley
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. - Yoko Ono
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.– Paulo Coelho
Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed.– Misty Copeland
True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.” – Oprah Winfrey
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. -Deepak Chopra
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. ― Heraclitus
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.- Nelson Mandela
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.- John Maxwell
A year from now you may wish you had started today.- Karen Lamb
Nothing lasts forever. Not even your troubles.- Arnold H Glasgow
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. - Mother Teresa
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. - Dolly Parton
Done is better than perfect. - Sheryl Sandberg
Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow. - Helen Keller
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. –Robert F. Kennedy
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. – Suzy Kassem
The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.– Tony Robbins
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Breault
It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. Vince Lombardi
You do not find the happy life. You make it. – Camilla Eyring Kimball
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones. – Ralph Marston
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.– Albert Einstein
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle
To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.― Mandy Hale
We think that the things we are going to regret are the things that we didn't attain; but that's not what we're going to regret. We're going to regret the things we didn't give, the love we didn't show, the time we didn't spend on someone who mattered... what we didn't GIVE. That's what we're going to regret!― C. JoyBell
We have to stop telling ourselves that everyone is watching, waiting for us to fail. They really aren’t.― Beth Kempton
Time is so short that you should not waste it with people who do not share your love of life.― Germany Kent
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.– Albert Einstein
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. – Maya Angelou
Love, friendship, laughter… Some of the best things in life really are free. – Bob Marley
Don’t wait for the right opportunity. Create it. – George Bernard Shaw
Don’t count the days. Make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.― Rumi
If you enjoy these quotes, you can write them down in your journal, hang them on your wall, or put them anywhere that you can look at them for when you need motivation throughout the day. This way, you can get the benefit of a lift of positive thinking anytime you are feeling down
The more motivation and positivity you have in your life, the more it can inspire you to move forward in life, and to make the best of the bad days. As you find quotes that you like on social media, or elsewhere in your studies, you can write them down in a journal so that you can revisit them later, too.
Pretty soon, you will have some of your favorite quotes committed to memory, so that you can easily think of them any time that you are struggling.