Dorothea Dix Quotes

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

My mental state is perfectly fine.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.