Mental Quotes

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

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.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.

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.

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.