Quotes About Mind

I lie on my side I wonder how much pain and horror can be contained In one human mind I turn on the light All I can think about is going somewhere

Reality has always bored me senseless. It drains my energy. Many years ago, I realized I was going to process life though a music purification system. It worked, too. When I listen to music, read or write about music, think about music, everything gets better. Music allows me to travel in my mind. We spend a good part of our lives in places we don't want to be in and with people we don't want to be around. I'm trying to keep all that to a minimum.

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

The mind," he said, intruding on and descanting upon her thoughts, "is the least commonly acknowledged erogenous zone.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.

A man of genius truly matched in the companionship of mated love was the brightest being of creation, his genius was held in balance. Alone, he overworks, his mind runs upon its own circles, its own horrific convolutions

Your mind knows only somethings. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what youknow instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a man is in a pleasant state of mind, everything went well and easily. p 1128

The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort of new brilliance. That world of her own seemed quite new to her now so sweet and precious that she would not on any account spend an extra day outside it, and she made up her mind that she would certainly go back next day.