(1359 quotes found)
“Some people are just mentally constipated and could really use a brain enema.”
John Ottesen
“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”
W. H. Auden
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients”
Oscar Levant
“The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.”
Clarence Blasier
“Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy”
Charles Fillmore
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
Bobby Knight
“I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.”
Jean Piaget
“I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended,”
Galileo Galilei
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
James Truslow Adams
