Mental Health famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
-- Adam Ant -
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
-- Alain de Botton -
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
-- Alan Ball -
I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
-- Alan Thicke -
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
-- Alan Watts -
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
-- Andrew Solomon -
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
-- Andrew Weil -
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
-- Anna Castillo -
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.
-- Arthur Keith -
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health
-- Ashley Montagu -
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
-- Camille Paglia -
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
-- Carl Rogers -
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
-- Charles Darwin -
Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night
-- Christiane Northrup -
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
-- Claude Monet -
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.
-- Colleen Hanabusa -
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
-- Diane Abbott -
Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
-- Dick Butkus -
Mental health courts exist because the system has failed. If these people were being treated, they wouldn't end up with misdemeanor charges or felony charges against them in the first place. The very existence of mental health courts is really an indication of the system's failure.
-- E. Fuller Torrey -
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.
-- E. Lockhart -
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
-- E. M. Forster -
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
-- Edvard Munch -
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.
-- Edward Thorndike -
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely
-- Flora Rheta Schreiber -
People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
-- Frank Bruno -
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.
-- Fritjof Capra -
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
-- Gail Porter -
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
-- Gail Porter -
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
-- Glenn Close -
A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.
-- Helen Cresswell -
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions
-- Hillary Clinton -
If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok.
-- Howie Mandel -
Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.
-- Jamie Fellner -
Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
-- Joanne Greenberg -
There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.
-- John A. Sanford -
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
-- Juliette Lewis -
The attitudes towards mental health must change
-- Kate Middleton -
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.
-- Kate Middleton -
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.
-- Linda Hamilton -
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
-- Michael Connelly -
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.
-- Mira Bartok -
One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.
-- Mircea Andreescu -
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.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
-- Peter Shilton -
Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.
-- Phil Cooke -
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.
-- Robert Ringer -
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
-- Sammy Davis, Jr. -
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
-- Samuel Alexander -
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
-- Samuel Wilson -
I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
-- Shirley Manson -
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
-- Stephen Mitchell -
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
-- Tom Bosley -
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.
-- Winona Ryder -
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.
-- Deray McKesson -
I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.
-- Isaiah -
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.
-- Peter Kinderman -
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.
-- William Damon -
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.
-- Rosalynn Carter -
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.
-- Roz Chast
