Quotes — Mental Health and Conditions

• "…anxiety represents not only an attempted return of the repressed but also a striving on the part of the total personality toward a re-establishment of unity, harmony, oneness, “health.”"

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "…the social nature of the human being as the source of our uniquely creative intellectual capacities as well as our capacity for anxiety."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "Fears may mask anxiety."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "Just as too much physical force can break a child’s bones, too much control can break a child’s spirit and fracture his psyche. It can cause a splintering of self, causing a child to disown some parts of himself and to inflate others."

  — Beverly Engel

  Healing the Emotional Self

• "Sanity—mental health—is a state of flow and well-being; being grounded, resilient, and balanced; possessing self-esteem; and being able to adjust to the events of life."

  — David Richo

  Wholeness and Holiness

• "Anxiety was born in the very same moment of mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it — just as we have we have learned to live with storms."

  — Paulo Coelho

  Manuscript Found in Accra

• "One must have a chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

  — Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thus Spake Zarathustra

• "Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

  — Anais Nin

  The Diary of Anais Nin vol. 4

• "There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible."

  — Paulo Coelho

  Manuscript Found in Accra

• "… although anxiety is a part of life, never let it control you."

  — Paulo Coelho

  Manuscript Found in Accra

Trending Quotes Topics

• Humanness and Emotions
• Mental Health and Conditions
• Therapy
• Mindfulness and Presence
• Sadness, Grief and Despair

• 

  Therapy

  Psychotherapy: Introduction, Types, Benefits, Effectiveness

• 

  Mental Health and Conditions

  On Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Treatments

• 

  Acceptance

  On Acceptance: To Accept What Is