Mental Health Quotes

"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded." "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." "Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten." "Meditate. Do not delay, lest you later regret it." "Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox." "There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." "I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK." "Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks." "Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young." "Where id was, there ego shall be." "One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse." "Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent." "Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another." "Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation." "The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three."