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Mental Health Quotes

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
Buddha
"What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming."
Muhammad Ali
"I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK."
Muhammad Ali
"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially."
Denzel Washington
"Don’t focus on the pain. Focus on the progress."
Dwayne Johnson
"Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks."
Sigmund Freud
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
Sigmund Freud
"Where id was, there ego shall be."
Sigmund Freud
"One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse."
Sigmund Freud
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
Sigmund Freud
"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
Sigmund Freud
"Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation."
Sigmund Freud
"The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three."
Sigmund Freud
"The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it."
Sigmund Freud
"The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."
Sigmund Freud
"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id."
Sigmund Freud
"The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id."
Sigmund Freud
"Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires."
Sigmund Freud
"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor."
Sigmund Freud
"If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends."
Sigmund Freud