Mental Health Quotes - Page 7

• There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.

  John A. Sanford

  Light, Source

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• I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

  Martha Manning

  Depression, Crazy, People

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Girl, Teenage, Hate

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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  Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hope, Light, Darkness

  "The Priest". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2010.

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• One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

  Andrew Weil

  Dog, Way, Obvious

  "An Unlikely Dog Person" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Love, Life, Learning

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.479, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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• I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Insane, Mental Illness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, p.118, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Moving, Mean, Guilt

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• Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Tears

  "Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'", www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns.

  Richard Di Natale

  Class, Weather, Issues

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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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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• One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Struggle, Acceptance

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

  David Brooks

  Country, Gun, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, People, Deviation

  YouTube Chanel "hazzaroonee"/ "cocaine decisions", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2007.

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• I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Tv News, Tvs

  "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone Interview, October 23, 2002.

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• I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Loneliness, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Attitude, Opportunity

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health--a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Baby, Children

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