Quotes about mind

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“Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”

“It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.”

“Hester, in the dark conclusion of Hawthorne's brooding novel, reassumes the Puritan mantle…. Hawthorne thus captures the catch-22 of feminism: the very woman who is able to envision a new order of living is, by the same token, unable, since the passion that enables her also adulterates her in the eyes of the Puritans. Released from goodness, she is imprisoned in badness, within the framework of the puritanical order. But her mind is free to question the order.”

“We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like… Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?… I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.”

“There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.”

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

“One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.”

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”

“Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind”

“The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.”

“Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?”

“I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.”

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”

“Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.”

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”

“Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.”

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

“Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.”

“Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.”

“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.”

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

“Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.”

“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.”

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”

“What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“Always live your life with your biography in mind.”

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”

“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”

“The visions you glorify in your mind,
The ideals you enthrone in your heart..
This you will build your life by…
This you will become.”

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”

“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”

“Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.”

“We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.”

“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”

“I love you, too."
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.”

“The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.”

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

“Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.”

“Open your mind before your mouth”

“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

“If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.”

“I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement…”

“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.”

“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”

“Fear is the mind-killer.”

“If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.”

“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”

“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world… enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”

“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”

“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”

“neuroscientists say that if there is no past information about an object in your mind, you actually cannot see it. Suppose”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”

“Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”

“Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.”

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”

“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.”

“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.”

“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”

“Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do”

“A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.”

“There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point”

“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

“But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”

“Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time… and it's all good.”

“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”

“a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause… In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”

“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”

“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”

“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.” — JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE”

“There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.”

“If your mind dislike anything obey it”

“By words the mind is winged.”

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

“Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash"
Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge”

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.”

“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

“An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.”

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”