Mental Health Quotes - Page 6

• Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

  Homer

  Deeds, Doers, Speakers

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.3216, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Anticipation

  See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Wellington 3

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• To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

  Carl Rogers

  Different, Conformity, Dangerous

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

  Peter Shilton

  Stress, Talking, Mental Illness

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• The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Medicine, Poison

  The Conduct of Life Ch. 7

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• The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sick, Deny, Existence

  The Conduct of Life, Worship

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• A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

  Allan Sherman

  Color, Being Different, Might

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• I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

  Tim Burton

  People, Conformity, Wonder

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.35, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Crazy, Artist, Half

  Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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• You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Moving, Lakes, Water

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• Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

  Moliere

  Worry, Anxiety, Doubt

  "The Misanthrope". Play by Moliere, Act III, sc. v, 1666.

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• Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Dark, Reality

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.193

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• There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

  John Elder Robison

  People, Routine, World

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• The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Happiness, Spiritual, Past

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• The Lourie Center is an important model to consider...(in) mental health care... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every young child in our society has the opportunity to get an emotionally healthy start in life.

  Tipper Gore

  Children, Memorable, Opportunity

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• I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Valentines Day, Thinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Sadness, Events In Life

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• It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Knowing, Panic, Mental Illness

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

  Phil Cooke

  Writing, Mental Illness, Therapy

  Phil Cooke (2012). “One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

  Jo Brand

  Genius, Lines, Rubbish

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• People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

  Frank Bruno

  People, Mickey, Delicate

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• If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Happiness, Live Life, Race

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• People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this country. If we ignore their cries for help, we will be continuing to participate in the anguish from which those cries for help come. A problem of this magnitude will not go away. Because it will not go away, and because of our spiritual commitments, we are compelled to take action.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Spiritual, Country, Commitment

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• We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Ideas, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for God, love for one another, love for creation, love for life itself.

  Gerald May

  Heart, Love Life, May

  Gerald G. May (2009). “The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth”, p.6, Zondervan

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