Mental Health
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A neurosis is a secret you don't know you're keeping. - Kenneth Tynan
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. - William S. Burroughs
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov
Confusion is always the most honest response. - Marty Indik
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
- George Price
Do not disturb! (I'm disturbed enough already.)
Einstein said that talking to yourself is a sign of intelligence.
Answering yourself, however, is a sign of insanity.
Ever stop to think and forget to start again?
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.
Now he's miserable and depressed. - David Frost
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage
I don't really trust a sane person. - Lyle Alzado
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it!
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin
I have amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I have forgotten this before.
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Ernest Hemingway
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness
expanded one unnecessary iota. – Fran Lebowitz
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. - Richard Lewis
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hated me.
He told me I was being ridiculous.
Everyone hadn't met me yet.
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
I'm not in denial. I’m just selective about the reality I choose to accept.
- Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier
Insane people are always sure that they are fine.
It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. - Nora Ephron
Insane: When you're nuts and it bothers you. (Crazy is when you're nuts and you like it.)
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. - R. D. Lang
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
Keep your mind open. Something good might enter.
Many so-called open minds should be closed for repairs.
Mental Health is overrated.
Minds are like parachutes: they function best when they are open.
My mind not only wanders sometimes it leaves completely.
My mind's not twisted... just bent in several strategic places.
No Sense Being Pessimistic. It Wouldn’t Work Anyway. - John Robb
Normal people worry me.
Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the blink again. – Douglas Adams
Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.
Optimists proclaim this is the best of all possible worlds to live in. Pessimists believe this to be true.
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean
when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called
Suffering From a Mental Illness. - Heather Armstrong
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. - Carl Jung
Philosophy: a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. - Jane Wagner
Sanity is madness put to good use. - George Santayana
Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.
The idea is not to get it all together but to learn to live with it while it's all apart.
The man who fears suffering is suffering from what he fears.
The only normal people are those you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis
The reason that people get lost in thought is because it's such unfamiliar territory.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger
There is a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant
Try not to let your mind wander. It is too small to be out by itself. - L. Atkinson
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. - Hermann Hesse
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