Quotes About Mind

I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.

It's really none of your business...

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

As I watch her pine casket descend...I try to envision the reunion of a frail eighty year old woman with her decades younger husband and their three sons and am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go

Now and then I leaf through the small blue volume of Emily Dickinson poems that my teacher, Mrs. Crowley, pressed into my hand. I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

I try to think the simpler thing; it's easier that way. But then life complicates it, two minds living and thinking in the same small space. You think you've placed a thought or a memory so you can live with it, and then that other mind comes crowding in and knocks it down.

The borderline's children are preoccupied with what researchers call "risk assessment"—with determining the nature of their mother's state of mind from one moment to the next. It is an unconscious and involuntary process, like breathing. They do not realize they are doing it.

Ces jeux de mémoire me réservent mille tentations de détours.

Moreover, in order to show forth her wisdom and the excellence of her mind to the centuries to come, she [Nicostrata/Carmentis] worked and studied so hard that she invented her own letters, which were completely different from those of other nations, that is, she established the Latin alphabet and syntax, spelling, the difference between the vowels and consonants, as well as a complete introduction to the science of grammar.

His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you won't be alone, Tansy. I'm strong. I'll find your mind and I'll bring you back." "Last time I broke into a million pieces." "I'll find each one.

Mirënjohja dhe pasioni janë një cift i paqëndrueshëm dhe organi i meshkujve një objekt jo besnik, pa tru dhe i pajetë, i cili nuk na përket neve dhe që ne nuk kemi për ta kuptuar kurrë.

A lot of perception is a con job.

Le tumulte et le désordre de notre esprit diminuent notre libre arbitre, le rendent esclave de nos émotions, c'est-à-dire des circonstances.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

His bedroom was a reflection of Bryant's mind, its untidy shelves filled with games and puzzles stacked in ancient boxes, statues and mementoes competing for space with books on every subject imaginable, from Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology to Illustrated British Ballads and A History of Indian Philosophy. "What are you reading at the moment?' asked May. "Batman," said Bryant. "The drawings are terribly good.

Prejudice walking to and fro in flesh and blood is my horror, and, alas, a phenomenon so common; and people plume themselves so much upon their prejudices, as signs of decision of character and greatness of mind, nay, of true patriotism; and all the while they are simply the product of narrowness of intellect, and narrowness of heart.

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.

I wanted to escape my head because my head is so stupid these days. I wanted to be inside someone else's head.

Wie ein Buckel schlepp' ich mein schweres Gehirn.

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

I live inside my head," he told himself. "So does everyone in a way. So what goes on in there, must count. It must count a lot. I shall always live in my head, wherever I go or whatever I do for the whole of my life. So why shouldn't I be at home in there?

I thought: Yes, to live the life of the mind is the truest form of happiness.