Quotes About Mental

The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.

Once you've put in the work, though, the game becomes extremely mental. I had enough inner strength to know I could beat anyone at all, anytime, on any surface. But behind my defenses were some very dark places. There was always a devil inside me whom I had to fight. And the devil was fear of failure.

Stress hormones can do some truly nasty things to your brain if boatloads of the stuff are given free access to your central nervous system.

If you have to constantly alter your natural mental state to survive a situation, doesn't it follow that the situation is toxic?

I don't have any control over what memories I get, when I get them. Except every single one of them is something I would have rather forgotten. -- "Erase, Erase, Erase

She shook her head, wondering if the jangle of voices was already driving her mad.

The feeling of being unguarded and unable to follow a mental thread was relentless.

Anxiety was a distraction I did not need.

Perhaps I had been dreaming, processing and refining old memories in the way you're supposed to process and refine newer ones.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Silence and mental illness are not a very effective combination.

Most people don´t like to think, period.

Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?

Faith and mental stability aren't mutually exclusive.

Personality disorder? Given the extensive and widespread array of human emotions, why was anything a personality disorder?

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.

But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Consciousness is not sharply defined, but fades into sub-consciousness; and beyond that we must postulate something indefinite but yet continuous with our mental nature. This I take it be the world-stuff.

The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference.

Mental tranquility and physical health are coveted, not the approbation of the Lord.