Mental Quotes

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.

I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions.

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

I work out at least once a day. If I'm not working, I'll work out three times a day. I do it because I enjoy it. It's a way of living and it makes me relaxed. It gives me mental stability, honestly.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.

It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.

You're never too old to be crazy.

To me, defense is a mental attitude…it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.