Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

A good walk every day does wonders for my soul.

If you have depression, you are dramatically more likely to be sick. Now to say you don't need to treat depression because it's not a medical reality - when in fact it clearly affects your interaction with the entire world around you - is just frankly reactionary.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

Health depends on being in harmony with our souls

Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

There is no health without mental health.