#Mental Health Quotes

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain”

“Better be with the dead,Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,Than on the torture of the mind to lieIn restless ecstasy.”

“Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?”

“WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.”

“What you feed your mind determines your appetite.”

“Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.”

“Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head.Raise the rent and kick them out.”

“A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.”

“Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."”

“Feed your mind with the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, and the positive”

“We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.”

“Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.”

“I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly.”

“There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.”

“Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.”

“I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.”

“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.”

“There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.”

“My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.”

“People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.”

“I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.”

“Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over.”

“I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices”

“There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.”

“You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.”

“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.”

“I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.”

“So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.”

“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”

“I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.”

“Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.”

“You get a little stir crazy during the week.”

“There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems." That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.”

“It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.”

“No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”

“The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.”

“I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me”

“You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.”

“Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.”

“Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.”

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

“I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.”

“No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.”

“There is no illness of the body except for the mind”

“Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?”

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”

“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?”

“Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.”