Quotes About Mental state

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

The scientific literature shows that hunger, anger, loneliness, tiredness, pain, and stress are common "preconditions for poor decision making." So Shubin Stein uses an acronym, HALT-PS, as a reminder to pause when those factors might be impairing his judgment and postpone important decisions until he's in a state in which his brain is more likely to function well.* This is our seventh technique for reducing avoidable stupidity.

Conscious experiences range from vivid color sensations to experience of the faintest background aromas; from hard-edged pains to the elusive experience of thoughts on the tip of one's tongue. . . . All these have a distinct experienced quality. . . . To put it another way, we can say that a mental state is conscious if it has a qualitative feel—an associated quality of experience.11

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.

The emotion is the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. Watch the emotion. You are the watcher, not the emotion.

The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.

Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could never really finish a piece of work because my mind was moving so fast.

Once you finish a film you sort of go into depression mode because the energy shift is so strong. That's what happens to me anyway; I can't cope with the switch.

for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.

We are beyond being helped, even by other more realized beings, unless we are in a receptive mental state.

The word "depressed" is spoken phonetically as "deep rest". We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

I don't think I made it clear where I was mentally when I appeared on 'X Factor.' There was so much pressure and a lot of judging. But I wanted to take a chance on the show because I wanted to make something of myself. 'X Factor' seemed like the only way out.

YOU KNOW IF YOU WERENT SO PSYCHOTIC YOU WOULD BE FUN TO HANG OUT WITH

It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

I have, actually. I'm under pressure, but I'm also observing myself under pressure from the standpoint of an onlooker. Once I create this other self within my mind I can proceed calmly, at my own pace.

Happiness will come today, tomorrow and every year, now, then and every moment. For if we learn to love, care and share, happiness will come to fill our heart with kindness. It is a gift from the universe to touch our life with joyful silence. Happiness will come. For if we know wealth and splendors are illusions, but attainment of certain mental state and unconditional love is a real possession.