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Quotes About Mind

One who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, and what I should be... And what I should be
~ John Milton
One who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, and what I should be...
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself103 255 Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can makes a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven
~ John Milton
254: The mind is its own place, and in it self 255: Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
pain, that with ambitious mind 35: Will covet more.
~ John Milton
El espíritu vive en sí mismo, y en sí mismo puede hacer un cielo del infierno, o un infierno del cielo. ¿Qué importa el lugar donde yo resida, si soy el mismo que era, si lo soy todo, aunque inferior a aquel a quien el trueno ha hecho más poderoso?
~ John Milton
Infernal world! And thou, profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven.
~ John Milton
Farewel happy Fields   Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail   Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell   Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings   A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.   The mind is its own place, and in it self   Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
In horrible destruction laid thus low,   As far as Gods and Heav'nly Essences   Can Perish: for the mind and spirit remains   Invincible, and vigour soon returns,   Though all our Glory extinct, and happy state   Here swallow'd up in endless misery.
~ John Milton
The mind is its own place and in itself [255] Can make a Heaven of hell, a hell of Heaven.
~ John Milton
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days...
~ John Milton
The mind in its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell,a hell of heaven.
~ Unknown
The mind is it's own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell , Hell of Heaven.
~ Unknown
The body might be expending very little actual energy, but the mind is running a marathon combined with an obstacle course. Are you depressed and find yourself tired all the time? That may be because you do a decathlon every day.
~ John Moe
And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.
~ John O'Donohue
The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.
~ John O'Donohue
This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence.
~ John O'Donohue
The spirituality of the rural mind does not see time as routine or treadmill; time is a far more precious space where crevices open into the infinite, and where the rhythm of the eternal is felt to preside.
~ John O'Donohue
To young mind, work seemed to be the price that was gladly paid for the privilege of living so closely with the earth. Work was a real conversation with the landscape. It was not an abuse or raiding of the landscape. It was amazing to learn how to work in this context.
~ John O'Donohue
We put terrible pressure on our minds. When we tighten them or harden our views or beliefs, we lose all the softness and flexibility that makes for real shelter, belonging, and protection. Sometimes the best way of caring for your soul is to make flexible again some of the views that harden and crystalize your mind; for these alienate you from your own depth and beauty.
~ John O'Donohue
The mind of blessing is wise, and it knows that whatever torments or diminishes a person cannot be healed simply from within that diminishment; consequently it addresses the wholeness and draws that light and healing into the diminished area.
~ John O'Donohue
seems that when a person finds himself in extremis and gathers his mind and calls out, something comes awake in the highest regions of destiny. Time behaves differently when blessing is invoked.
~ John O'Donohue