Quotes About Mental

I was only precocious mentally and lived in deadly fear of losing my virtue, not for moral reasons, but from the dread of being thought "easy.

A normal life includes the occasional black mood

For every twenty-four hours awake, Belenky told me, people lose 25 percent of their capacity for useful mental work.

Fully half of all transplant patients, I found out, develop postoperative psychological problems of some sort.

Non v'è contributo migliore di un fermo proposito per tranquillizzare la mente, di un obiettivo, cioè, su cui l'anima fissi il suo sguardo intellettivo.

For nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose —a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

The truth of the matter is that the stronger or more capable the body is, the weaker or lazier the mind can afford to be.

Six-time Ironman winner Mark Allen hit the nail on the head when he described endurance racing as "a test of you as a person on top of a test of you as an athlete." But

The journey toward becoming a mentally fit athlete is very much a journey of personal development.

The best source of knowledge concerning the most effective methods of coping with the challenges of endurance sports is the example set by elite endurance athletes. The methods that the greatest athletes rely on to overcome the toughest and most common mental barriers to better performance are practically by definition the most effective coping methods for all athletes.

The human brain is a wonderful thought-producing machine. It turns out millions of thoughts every day. Most of the time, this makes our lives much easier. But unfortunately, we can't fully control what our brain thinks about.

It's almost as if the harder you try to forget something, the harder your brain tries to remember it. This is why forcing yourself to forget about something that happened to you is impossible. It's also why you can't simply force yourself to get rid of emotions that you don't want.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

Probably some period thing. I go completely mental too. Period fever. It's the worst. This effectively killed all conversation for a while. ...Fixed that, she said. You told him I had period fever , I replied. There's no such thing as period fever. No such thing as ghosts either. No, there is really no such thing as period fever. There's a difference between being a guy and being an idiot .

Sometimes anxiety did that—it could slow you down or speed you up.

It was a good brain, but it had only two modes—fog and frenzy.

Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

Even if some women were physically and mentally capable of participating in a warrior's group, this very rarely happened.

Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank—you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else—we either plan it or dream it.

I fail to remember, the mind has fuses.

I had nothing to escape from except my own inner doubt.

there's good crazy and bad crazy

I've been having nightmares," she said quietly. "Basically the same dream for months now. I'm exhausted.

Americans account for two-thirds of the global market for antidepressants, which happen also to be the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States.