Psychological Health Quotes

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.

Seriousness is a disease.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.

Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.

I would never encourage anyone to adopt a contractive posture. It's not good for you physically. It's not good for you psychologically.

The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

I have no sense of well-being. There's no chance the well will run dry.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.

Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease