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9. “The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mind becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Anger, Emotion, Inner Peace, Mental Health, Self-Control
11. “Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.” Sadhguru Mental Health, Self-awareness, Emotions, Balance, Freedom
12. “If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.” Sadhguru Mental Health, Compassion, Awareness, Stigma, Society
21. “Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.” Norman Vincent Peale Growth, Mental Health, Success, Forgiveness, Perspective
32. “People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.” Tom Rath Friendship, Wellbeing, Mental Health, Social Bonds, Happiness
44. “When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?” David Hume Suicide, Social Perception, Mental Health, Life, Death
45. “In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.” John Locke Madness, Idiocy, Reasoning, Cognition, Mental Health
50. “I’ve heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards – how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he’ll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he’s out of place; how society is what decides who’s sane and who isn’t, so you got to measure up.” Ken Kesey Therapy, Community, Social Norms, Mental Health, Belonging
Mental health Quotes by Famous Authors
9. “The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mind becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.”
Henry Ward Beecher Anger, Emotion, Inner Peace, Mental Health, Self-Control
11. “Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.”
Sadhguru Mental Health, Self-awareness, Emotions, Balance, Freedom
12. “If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.”
Sadhguru Mental Health, Compassion, Awareness, Stigma, Society
21. “Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.”
Norman Vincent Peale Growth, Mental Health, Success, Forgiveness, Perspective
32. “People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.”
Tom Rath Friendship, Wellbeing, Mental Health, Social Bonds, Happiness
44. “When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?”
David Hume Suicide, Social Perception, Mental Health, Life, Death
45. “In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.”
John Locke Madness, Idiocy, Reasoning, Cognition, Mental Health
50. “I’ve heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards – how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he’ll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he’s out of place; how society is what decides who’s sane and who isn’t, so you got to measure up.”
Ken Kesey Therapy, Community, Social Norms, Mental Health, Belonging
