John Forbes Nash Jr. Quotes

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

It is the mind that makes the body.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

My brain is fine.

Health is not just a physical thing for me anymore - there is a huge mental side as well.

I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

I want to have all of my faculties.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

There is nothing wrong with my mind.

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement.