Mental Health Quotes

• There is no health without mental health.

  David Satcher

  "Mental Health and Civil Rights: The Kennedy Legacy". Interview with Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2016.

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• What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

  Glenn Close

  Needs, Sunlight, Conversation

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• There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sad, Depression, Pain

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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• It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Impossible, Kind

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  Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Alive, Way

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

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• Hope is a renewable option:
  If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspiring, Running, Dream

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• We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Balance, Needs

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

  Mason Cooley

  Depression, Courage, Bipolar

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

  Glenn Close

  People, Society, Actresses

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

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• Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

  Alain de Botton

  Mind, Safe, Settling

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2015

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• Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

  Louise Hart

  Self Esteem, Important, Essentials

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Bipolar

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• Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Fear

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• Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

  William J. Clinton

  Healing, Bipolar, Helpful

  "10 Male Celebrities Who Are Smashing Mental Health Stereotypes" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

  John Lubbock

  Motivational, Happiness, Letting Go

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• The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Children, Powerful, Parent

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• You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

  Michael Connelly

  Soul, Band, Ptsd

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  Fiona Apple

  Depression, People, Crowds

  "POP QUIZ - Q & A With Fiona Apple". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 7, 1997.

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Change

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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• My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

  Jane Pauley

  Cancer, Medicine, Goal

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  Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Art, Discussion

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  The best way out is always through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

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