Quotes About Mind

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.

I don't think nightmares are necessarily bad for you.

I make sure I have ample sleep, so no late nights out, as sleep is so important for a healthy mind and body.

I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume my days and nights - what can I say? But I am an avid film student, too: I watch a movie every night.

I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.

Your mind is nirvana.

Clams's music to me is where there's no boundaries. It was just exciting for my mind to be as free as Clams's music is.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

I have never been on a cleanse, no. I have no interest in it.

For some years I relied on suicidal thoughts to help me go to sleep.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it.

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it. Edith

there was no power like a sharp and subtle mind weaving others' hopes and fears and hungers into a dream they wanted to hear. Always know what they want to hear—not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.

Atunci am v?zut-o. E ciudat ce poate urzi mintea când inima o îmboldeÈ™te. Ar?ta altfel decât mi-o aminteam eu. ?i totuÈ™i. Era aceeaÈ™i. Ochii: aÈ™a am recunoscut-o. Mi-am spus: "Vas?zic? aÈ™a È›i se arat? îngerul. Oprit la vârsta la carea te-a iubit cel mai mult.

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?

and yet still the question was there, and my mind went to it like a tongue probing the tender spot of a loose tooth: it hurt but I wanted to know

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be frightening and ugly," then they need to search.

Epicurus summed up his whole philosophy in his epitaph: 'I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind' If