Quotes About Mind

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water

ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind. MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.

A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds.

in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes

Thoughts ramble through my head like nervous burglars in a pitch-black house.

so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

Ä°ÅŸte bu doÄŸru. Burada, Türkiye'de insan hiçbir ÅŸeye akl?yla inanamaz.

what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.

Now suddenly he had intimations of destiny; he could see that life had a secret geometry on which his rational mind had no purchase. But even as he was overcome with a desire to subdue his reason and find happiness, he also sensed that - for the moment at least - his yearning for happiness was not yet strong enough.

To give charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us.

In a smoky corner of my mind I was reminded of a truth drawn from bitter experience: immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind. MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our world what the mind already knows. Did the graduate of the miserable college understand this logic, which I'd extracted with lightning inspiration from the depths of my soul?

Me parecía que aquel momento de observación se alargaba sin cesar y comprendí que ahora el hecho de ver se había transformado en un cierto recordar. Entonces se me vino a la cabeza lo que sentía antiguamente cuando contemplaba una hermosa ilustración durante horas: si la miras lo suficiente, tu mente entra en el tiempo de la pintura.

So this is how Mevlut came to understand the truth that a part of him had known all along: walking around the city at night made him feel as if he were wandering around inside his own head.

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 in its teeming multitudes.

Pero nuestros cerebros se parecen a un glotón que continuamente buscara historias para engullirlas. ¡Tenemos que librarnos de esa afición a los cuentos! Y entonces seremos libres. ¡Entonces veremos el mundo tal y como es!

With a clarity of mind and an optimism that he hadn't felt in years, Ka saw at once that the heart of the matter was shame.

În astfel de împrejur?ri, adic? imediat ce mintea noastr? neîndur?toare pricepe dureroasa realitate pe care inima refuz? cu înverÅŸunare s-o recunoasc?, întregul nostru trup se revolt? împotriva ei.

I know there are many stances we can adopt towards the novel, many ways in which we commit our soul and mind to it, treating it lightly or seriously. And in just the same manner, I have learned by experience that there are many ways to read a novel. We read sometimes logically, sometimes with our eyes, sometimes with our imagination, sometimes with a small part of our mind, sometimes the way we want to, sometimes the way the books wants us to, and sometimes with every fiber of our being.

What you intended to forget tended to stick even more firmly in your mind.

Te quería muerto de miedo por todo lo que sabía que pasaba por tu mente y más por lo que no sabía.

Pictura înseamn? s? însufleÈ›eÈ™ti ceea ce vede mintea, spre s?rb?toarea ochiului. Ochiul se strecoar? în pictur? atât cât s? vad? în lume È™i s?-i slujeasc? minÈ›ii. Prin urmare, frumuseÈ›ea înseamn? redescoperirea de c?tre ochi, în lume, a ceea ce mintea cunoaÈ™te de la început.

Let me say one thing first: I'm a novelist. And it's a novelist's job to put your mind into all sorts of characters, which doesn't mean I agree with them.