Quotes About Mental

Everyone has to decide for himself how to get the better of his own mood

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.

boy—before intense anxiety had crushed his chances for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and sent him into the awful mental decline in which he'd been made a vampire.

and only by the coldest act of will did I avoid falling into a black pit of grief, so black that it would blind me to anything and everything.

I don't think you can feel sheer panic continuously. Your mental system breaks down. It comes in waves, and you have to tell yourself, well, this will end.

Deeply encased in snow, I couldn't move and couldn't see, save what my mind could see if I chose to use it, and wishing to die, I used nothing

though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And

I went soft. I saw the shocks of the blows as so many colors, and I thought to myself bitterly, ah, what beautiful colors, yes, colors. Then came the increased wails of my brothers. They too must suffer this, and what mental refuge did they have, these fragile young students, each so well loved and so well taught and groomed for the great world, to find themselves now at the mercy of these demons whose purpose was unknown to me, whose purpose lay beyond anything I could conceive.

But having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

The problem with fear, though, is that it isn't any one thing. Fear has a whole taxonomy—anxiety, dread, panic, foreboding—and you could be braced for one form and completely fall apart facing another.

Why do large-scale disasters produce such mentally healthy conditions?

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

Often when we believe we are practicing self-control or self-discipline, we're actually confining ourselves inside an overly analytical, self-conscious mental chamber.

Is she okay? I mean, no offense, she sounds more mental than I do.

The lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. -Nero

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.