Quotes About Mind

Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

They can betray me, but I choose not to betray my peace of mind.

[A]utumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations...

Beauty isn't so much a matter of mug as a question of thinks.

When ale is in, wit is out.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

I have found that the temple of the undistracted mind must be housed in an uncluttered environment. A basement or garret is invaluable, but they, too, must be uncluttered, even though they hold many essential things used only occasionally...

Too much coffee! — the caffeine starts muttering, my mind goes stumbling, my jitters go jiggy.

When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess, or perversion of mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Be always busy.

When Ideas float in our Mind, without any Reflection or Regard of the Understanding, it is that, which the French call Reverie; our Language has scarce a Name for it...

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, sometimes high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft and fresh vapour, which corrects the too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and blunts the sharp corners of ideas.

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!

Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.

Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our own minds.

...all dreams are a piece of vivid painting to the mind's eye...

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud.

My mind is a seed packet of assorted wildflowers — I get happiness and sadness and whatever else pops up.

Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

There is, indeed, much in nature that we do not yet half enjoy, because we shut our avenues of sensation and feeling. We are satisfied with the matter of fact, and look not for the spirit of fact which is above it. If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

Faith is nothing but spiritualized imagination.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.