Quotes About Mental

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

The most important body part is the mind. With the will and know-how, you can perform near miracles.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.

Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

A clean mind always delivers power.