Quotes About Mental

Children often respond to the mental atmosphere of the adults around them.

The Only Thing You Ever Have Any Control of Is Your Current Thought

People often tell me, "I can't stop thinking a thought." I always reply, "Yes, you can." Remember, how often have you refused to think a positive thought? You just have to tell your mind that that is what you are going to do. You have to make up your mind to stop thinking negatively.

Control your thoughts and you can control your emotions. Do you trust me?

Peter always had a 'best before' date stamped on his forehead," said Ruth. "People who live in their heads do. They start out well enough, but eventually they run out of ideas. And if there's no imagination, no inspiration to fall back on? Then what?

FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

The mind is its own place, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven,

And the enemy you'll be fighting is yourself.

Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension.

Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The Christians made mental phenomena into independent beings, their own feelings into qualities of things, the passions which governed them into powers which governed the world, in short, predicates of their own nature, whether recognised as such or not, into independent, subjective existences.

In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.

the root of the opposition to liberalism cannot be reached by resort to the method of reason. This opposition does not stem from reason, but from a pathological mental attitude, from resentment and from a neurasthenic condition that one might call a Fourier complex, after the French socialist of that name

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

The people we define as crazy just might be more sane than you and me.

No necesitas agua para sentir que estás ahogándote, ¿o sí? Cuando

Some are born crazy," Amelia said. "Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.