1.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
All converse about my work and feign insight, as if comprehension was obligatory, when truly only admiration is required.
2.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allan Poe
3.
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
Viktor E. Frankl
5.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Juliette Lewis
6.
The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
Joanne Greenberg
7.
The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
John Piper
8.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
Charles Darwin
9.
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.
Winona Ryder
10.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts
11.
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.
Kate Middleton
12.
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.
Ashley Montagu
13.
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
Carl Rogers
14.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
Glenn Close
15.
Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.
Robert Ringer
16.
I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
Louise Hay
17.
Mental health courts exist because the system has failed.
If these people were being treated,
they wouldn't end up with misdemeanor charges or
felony charges against them in the first place.
The very existence of mental health courts is really an
indication of the system's failure.
E. Fuller Torrey
18.
If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok.
Howie Mandel
19.
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
Alain de Botton
21.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
Diane Abbott
22.
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.
Rosalynn Carter
24.
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
Angelina Jolie
25.
If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.
Angelina Jolie
26.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
Gail Porter
27.
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
Hillary Clinton
28.
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
Homer
29.
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
Frank Zappa
30.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
31.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
Francis Parker Yockey
33.
It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.
Marilyn Monroe
34.
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
Stefan Molyneux
35.
Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.
Ishmael
36.
Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.
Demi Lovato
37.
I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.
Rod McKuen
38.
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
Patty Duke
39.
Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Dick Butkus
40.
There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.
John A. Sanford
42.
Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
Stephen Mitchell
43.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
44.
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
Andrew Solomon
45.
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
Andrew Weil
46.
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
Arthur Keith
47.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster
48.
Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night
Christiane Northrup
49.
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Adam Ant
50.
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
Peter Shilton