Quotes About Mind

That ought to make his face, or the sound of his voice, more precious to her mind, but strangely, this wasn't so. What was left in his absence was an empty, sorrowful discomfort. She wondered if it wouldn't eventually grow dull or dim if she worried at it enough, or softened and more

I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.

There's a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you'll be comforted to hear that you're not alone. Most of us have an invisible inner terrible someone who says all sorts of nutty stuff that has no basis in truth.

When I wasn't internally grumbling about my physical state, I found my mind playing and replaying scraps of songs and jingles in an eternal, nonsensical loop, as if there were a mix-tape radio station in my head. Up against the silence, my brain answered back with fragmented lines from tunes I'd heard over the course of my life - bits from songs I loved and clear renditions of jingles from commercials that almost drove me mad.

I'd never had a mind for math. I simply couldn't hold the formulas and numbers in my head. It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

They opened my mind to realities I didn't know existed. They forced me to be resilient, to sacrifice, to see how little I knew, and also how much.

transformation often depends that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds.

In the tumult of the past year it seemed as if writing had left me forever, but as I hiked, I could feel that novel coming back to me, inserting its voice among the song fragments and advertising jingles in my mind.

This image was fixed in my mind, like one of the memories from her childhood that I'd made her explain so intricately that I remembered it as if it were mine.

But transformation often demands that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds. Your rational mind knows that men leave their wives for younger women all the time. Your emotional response is you can't believe your father did. Your rational mind knows that it's hard for even strong, ethical people to sustain a long-term monogamy. Your emotional response is you're shocked your own parents failed to do so.

But transformation often demands that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds.

There's a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you'll be comforted to hear that you're not alone.

We're living inside of our minds Afraid someone just might Hear what we're thinking Quiet Careful of what you might say Cause they'll put you away

To be mediocre is not to be small. . . . We are physically small compared to the galaxies, but our minds encompass the universe

Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that the human mind delights in finding pattern — so much so that we often mistake coincidence . . . for profound meaning.

I think the brain has a special box where it keeps crappy memories. It stays shut, but everytime a new entry has to be added, it opens and you can look at what is inside.

This is how your mind plays game with you. If it wants you to do something, it will find a hundred reasons to justify it.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

It's amazing how quickly the mind switches from figuring out a situation to commenting on it.

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.

It's usually when a man speaks without thinking that he says what he thinks.

Letting myself get stressed out makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent!"

It's all in the mind and a bit in the heart but it goes in the body and that's where all the trouble comes in.

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?