Quotes About Mental

The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do it without destroying the health of the mind.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Consciousness can be a state of mind, but it is not a condition of mind

Health is the art of balance. Good mental and physical health require balance. Balance of diet, exercise, sleep, and stress. Imbalance creates stress on the body and mind. Poor health and disease are states of imbalance. Relaxation restores balance. Relaxation is the ideal state for good health. Relaxation is the ideal state for healing. Meditation is the art of consciously relaxing body and mind.

Resistance increases stress, but acceptance decreases stress

Watch thoughts and emotions rather than be thoughts and emotions

We either manage our thoughts & emotions or they manage us

A life without psychological balance, another dimension of uncertainty.

Philosophy is a mental leap, between approach and identification with wisdom.

If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.

The subjective texture of our conscious mental experiences—the feeling of pain, the experience of sound, the awareness of color—is different from anything that is simply physical. If the world were only made of matter these subjective aspects of consciousness would not exist. But they do exist! So there must be more to the world than matter.

It is not stress that kills us ,It is our reaction to it

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. The

I do what I think I'm meant to do, but I find it hard. The noise of the applause – the din, that sense of mental concussion – is like the shooting up on the hill, only I was more comfortable there. More at ease. Since I can't reasonably start shooting anyone now, I just shrink into myself and wait for it all to stop. For

Actually, you can't think without seeing pictures. Aristotle said it, centuries ago—one of his books opened with this sentence: "It is impossible even to think without a mental picture.

The hard-core politicians she knew wouldn't be stalking her; they weren't suffering from any mental disorders. Wait—not true. Anyone in politics was suffering from a mental disorder!

Art creates a certain familiarity with loneliness. And possibly with pain. Physical, mental, it doesn't really matter. It's all a catalyst. I don't like to admit that because it's depressing, but in truth pain is the stone that art sharpens itself on time after time.

I wonder if I'm going crazy. I think I read somewhere - or was it something I learned in psychology class? - that people often make up their own reality as a means of coping with what their brains can't possible handle. The idea comforts me, because while no one else out there seems to be trying to protect or save me, at least maybe my brain in.

Hormones contribute to intelligence and creativity, critical thinking, abstract analysis.

One thing on your list to worry about. Put all your worry into that one thing. Worry about it as much as you like, as much as you need to. But only that one thing. Anytime any of the other things flits across your mind, take that concern and channel it into your one thing.

Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

Many of the men brought aboard suffered from "shell shock," or "combat fatigue," as it is called in this war. But call it what you like, we did not have to be psychiatrists to realize that the human mind can look at one scene just so long, can absorb meaning and reality to just a certain point. With these men that point had been passed. Their minds had refused to accept the pictures which their senses presented;