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Mental health Quotes

"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."

"It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having a dinner conversation with you."

"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it"

"Sometimes you need to be activated in some way and sometimes that requires some kind of traumatic experience"

"I can’t think of a more wasteful use of time than spending it trying to please people."

"It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough."

"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."

"The ordinary person seeks to avoid tension and avoid problems"

"Being entirely honest with oneself is good exercise."

"Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place."

"People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty."

"Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health"

"I used to say drugs and alcohol were bad. Now, I think they’re necessary to cope with life in America"

"To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments"

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work"

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