Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

“Brain Life began around 3.5 billion years ago. Multicelled creatures first appeared about 650 million years ago. (When you get a cold, remember that…

— Rick Hanson

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of…

— John Buchan

40 is when your body gives your brain a list of things its not going to do anymore.

— Anonymous

The heart gives more, but the brain holds it.

— Ces Peta

On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your…

— Brigid Schulte

“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I face my trauma because I believe in breaking cycles, not repeating them.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong,…

— Tracy Thompson

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

— Linda Hamilton

You certainly can't prevent all mental health problems - factors like genetics and traumatic life events certainly play a role. But everyone can take…

— Amy Morin

“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr.…

— Aldous Huxley

“This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.”

— R. YS Perez

“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways…

— Emm Roy

“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder,…

— Alice Jamieson

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire