Mental Quotes

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

Mental slavery is worst than physical slavery

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

I was just sort of moving through time.

No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

To create something you must be something.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

Tis a mad world, my masters.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

It's great to be young and insane.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.