#mental

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#mental-health #death

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#diplomat #dull #experimental #financier #i

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#heard #i #know #lot #recycled

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#absurd #because #came #canvas #everything

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#game #golf #me #mentality #thing

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #i think #instrumental #like #play

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #battle #environmental #environmental movement #every

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economy #environmental #environmental protection #fragile #hear

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#claus #come #even #face #family

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically