Quotes About Emotional health

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster."[1]

emotional stress of those around them, as Colette Baron-Reid pointed out in her book Weight Loss for People Who Feel Too Much (Harmony, 2013).

The doctor] asked if I knew what might be causing my headaches. I looked her squarely in the face and said to her directly: "Yes, I hate my mother." That was the end of the interview. That was also the end of my visits to the doctor. That was not the end of my headaches.

Like depression, the effects of anxiety extend beyond the body and mind to the entire being, affecting not only one's sense of well-being but also health, longevity, work productivity, relationships—the entire human condition.

to be a successful manager, let alone—dare I say—a great leader, maybe you don't have to be wonderful so much as more or less emotionally healthy and clearheaded.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

Researchers have found that people who write down three things they're grateful for every night (or even a few times a week) improve their well-being and lower their risk of depression.

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

There's nothing like feeling like sh_t to kill your libido.

It took work to keep the mind, the heart, and emotions clean and orderly.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Changing yourself into who you think someone else wants is hurting yourself. It's a rejection of who you are, and that's toxic. You're committing emotional suicide." I

You have to be okay on your own before you can have a healthy relationship with another person.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

But what I found out, the longer you sit there and feel bad about yourself, the longer you're going to stay depressed.

Hatred is the most severely damaging mental condition. It poisons the body, and its effects are virtually irreversible

I'm late, the kind of late that suggest I have no regard for the emotional health of my Nigerian parents who probably think I've been kidnapped by the enemies of progress.

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

If your house is an overstuffed mess, I've learned that more often than not, it's a warning sign that you have some type of trouble—large or small—in your mental and emotional well-being. In turn, a chaotic home that leaves little room for you and the other people inside can threaten your mental and physical health.

We can begin to look at our own inner areas of immaturity. Specifically, we need to examine: "Where am I looking to get love rather than to give it?" The more loving we are, the less vulnerable we are to grief and loss, and the less we need to seek attachments.