Mental Health Quotes - Page 14

• Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Thinking, Framework

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• We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

  Samuel Alexander

  Elements, Wells, Cognitive

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• Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

  Arthur Keith

  Giving, Community, Modern

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok.

  Howie Mandel

  Care, Dental, Ifs

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• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  Samuel Alexander

  Simple, Issues, Analysis

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• The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

  Howard Aiken

  Errors, Effort, Desire

  "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.

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• I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.

  George Saunders

  Running, Cheer, Children

  "George Saunders's funny, sad stories from a divided nation" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2016.

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• It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

  Carson Kressley

  Ideas, Diversity, Being Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

  David Alan Grier

  Depressing, Home, Clothes

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• As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Football, Suicide

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• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Voice, Numbers

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• Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• You do trust him, though, Giddon?" "Holt, who is stealing your sculptures and is of questionable mental health?" "Yes." "I trusted him five minutes ago. Now I'm at a bit of a loss." "Your opinion five minutes ago is good enough for me.

  Kristin Cashore

  Loss, Sculpture, Opinion

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.143, Penguin

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• Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

  Daniel Handler

  Strong, Track, Records

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• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Blood, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Mother, Opportunity

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• Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

  Matt Lucas

  Depression, Uplifting, Enemy

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

  Patty Duke

  Inspiration, Insanity, Mental Illness

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.214, Bantam

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• And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

  Dr. Seuss

  Meaningful

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• Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Kids, Worry, Parent

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Choices, Drug

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Fall, Catharsis

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.152, Anchor

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• You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Confusing, Quitting, Madness

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel”, p.165, Macmillan

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• I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.

  Emily Carpenter

  Yoga, Practice, Space

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• Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

  Gail Porter

  Exercise

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