Quotes About Mental

Many apparently paranormal phenomena and amazing deeds attributed to supernatural powers can be partly explained - as Alexandra David-Neel herself pointed out - as the effects of mental training. Through concentration an extraordinary force can be developed which produces a form of energy.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Belief is a personal construct, an emotionally-colored fusion of imperfect mental processes like perception and memory.

Poverty can curdle the libido and corrode civilized thoughts. One's sense of humour vanishes, to be replaced by a curry-spoiling sarcasm as one's Mr Hyde emerges from the swamp of the subconscious.

Psychology is the science of mental life." William James

This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By

William James defined psychology as the science of mental life, but it could equally be defined as the science of human nature.

For me, it's more about the mental game, learning coverages, learning the whole offensive playbook.

Despair often breeds disease.

I think you go nuts when you get older.

As a goalkeeper, you've got to have mental toughness, and that's one thing I'm good at.

I overthink everything, and one thing I find difficult is to actually be in the moment.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. 

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Well, you've taken a weight off my mind." "A mind, I should imagine, scarcely constructed to bear great weights.

She's Magnificent, Darius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them, Stark grumbled. Mental and mean pop into my head, I said. Manure pops into mine, Stark said. Manure? I think she's full of shit, but it's to many words and doesn't start with an m , so that's as close as I could get, he said.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

There is a point beyond which the human brain loses its kinship with the Infinite and becomes a mere seething mass of deleterious passions. Malays

You can think your way out of living. This is when I learned To flip the script— When you change your thoughts, you change your life.

Fulfilling one's earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God, provided he maintains mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires and plays his part in life as a willing instrument of the Divine.

there he is like butter on water, and not like the unchurned, easily diluted milk of undisciplined humanity. Fulfilling one's earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God, provided he maintains mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires and plays his part in life as a willing instrument of the Divine. There

Outward frailty has a mental origin

Outward frailty has mental origin; in a vicious circle, the habit-bound body thwarts the mind.

Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath.