Mental Health Quotes

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

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

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

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

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

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.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

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

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing.

One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.

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.

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

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

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.