Underlying Mental Health

Famous quotes containing the words mental health, underlying, mental and/or health:

    “Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wishes on the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.”
    —Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)

    “Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    “Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)