Mental Health Quotes - Page 3

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.

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

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

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

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

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

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

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

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

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

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.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

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

Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.

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.

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

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

When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma is different from somebody breaking into a store. Those are not the same things, and our response has to be different.

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

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

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