Quotes About Mind

Then she said, "Life sure give a body plenty to think about in this world." I said, "Life give your brain plenty to think bout in this world. It's Love what give your body plenty to think bout.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

However selective the conscious mind may be, most biological memories are unpleasant ones, echoes of danger and terror. Nothing endures for so long as fear.

One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Death is a great adventure for a man with a well-organized mind.

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.

Every time you forced yourself not to think, your thoughts exploded into life with renewed strength.

For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.

But tension, unhappiness or exhaustion aren't 'problems' that can be solved. They are emotions. They reflect states of mind and body. As such, they cannot be solved – only felt. Once you've felt them – that is, acknowledged their existence – and let go of the tendency to explain or get rid of them, they are much more likely to vanish naturally, like the mist on a spring morning.

thinking. And we don't need language to stand as an intermediary between us and the world; we can also experience it directly through our senses. We are capable of directly sensing things like the sounds of birds, the scent of beautiful flowers and the sight of a loved one's smile. And we know with the heart as well as the head. Thinking is not all there is to conscious experience. The mind is bigger and more encompassing than thought alone.

Mindfulness teaches us that thoughts are just thoughts; they are events in the mind. They are often valuable but they are not 'you' or 'reality'.

use your restless and churning mind as an opportunity to look more deeply into it, rather than as an immediate reason to conclude that the meditation is "not working.

Mindfulness teaches us that thoughts are just thoughts; they are events in the mind. They are often valuable but they are not "you" or "reality." They are your internal running commentary on yourself and the world

We get drawn into this emotional quicksand because our state of mind is intimately connected with memory. The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state

There is a hole in your mind.

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart."2

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!