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Quotes About Mental state

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.
~ Marc Andreessen
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.
~ Unknown
the novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied tenfold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which comes to us in sleep;
~ Marcel Proust
The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
Wait...The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can makes a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place and in itself [255] Can make a Heaven of hell, a hell of Heaven.
~ John Milton
The mind in its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell,a hell of heaven.
~ Unknown
The mind is it's own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell , Hell of Heaven.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Whenever we have a mental state where there is anger, frustration, and fighting against the flow or a lack of confidence in the natural progression of events, the liver will usually be involved.
~ Unknown
With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.
~ Michael Finkel
How we feel at any given moment of a flow activity is strongly influenced by the objective conditions; but consciousness is still free to follow its own assessment of the case.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Happiness is corny. It is a word you do not find in Dorland's medical dictionary. When people are feeling tops, really at peace with themselves and others, they are not happy. In the medical sense, in that condition they are thought of not as happy, they are "euphoric," which, loosely translated, means slap-happy.
~ Unknown
When the contents of the collective unconscious become activated, they have an unsettling effect on the conscious mind of everyone. When this psychic dynamic is not consciously metabolized, not just within an individual but collectively, the mental state of the people as a whole might well be compared to a psychosis.
~ Unknown
He wondered if he'd completely lost his mind, but then figured that people who'd gone insane never wondered if they'd gone insane.
~ Paul S. Kemp