Mental Quotes

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

I have a plan-to go mad.

Your own mental attitude is your real boss.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.

You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

I was just sort of moving through time.