Quotes About Mind

Fury is a cloud that leaves my mind empty and my heart black.

Feelings are. They come plowing into my life without warning, permission or balance. They simply show up and take over my brain.

Shock is the body's defense system when the input we are receiving would otherwise blow our minds.

You get stronger by strengthing your mind, not your body.

What you are telling me is nothing new. You are not the only one who has trouble with wandering thoughts. Our minds are extremely unfocussed. But our will is the master of all our faculties, and it is able to rein them in and carry them to God, which is their final goal.

The self is seen as a psychological fiction, which means that its relationships are essentially fiction.

None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

We're thinking too much about educating the mind, and forgetting about the heart and soul.

Who are we without our memories?

I am also struck by how much the poet knew her own mind, both in terms of her need for solitude and what she hoped to achieve in her work.

Home to her was much more. It was the wild terrain of her mind. A world of hummingbirds and crickets and alabaster and dots on a disc of snow. To Emily Dickinson, home was consciousness itself—a continent of language where metaphor was her native tongue.

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

This tradition argues that education is not just about the passive assimilation of facts and cultural traditions, but about challenging the mind to become active, competent, and thoughtfully critical in a complex world. This model of education supplanted an older one in which children sat still at desks all day and simply absorbed, and then regurgitated, the material that was brought their way.

You can tell your body to do whatever you want, Miss Idina," he'd told her, his eyes closed and his legs crossed beneath him while a young Idina fidgeted in her attempt at the same position. "When you tell your mind to do what you say, and it finally obeys, this is mastery. Over anything and everything you wish.

People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out.

He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.

Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages. ( "Elf" the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )

Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.

I read somewhere that we never completely forget a thing, that there are the imprints of everything we've ever seen or done, all of these tiny details at the bottoms of our minds, like pebbles and weeds that never surface from a river bottom.

mind," he said. "I'll just get it then.

Because it is only by God's grace that we are enabled to renew our minds and be more like God, God gets all the credit.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

I don't change. It's not that I change. Reality changes. Everything becomes very small, and I exist entirely inside my mind. Even my own body isn't real." Indicating

I believe that most of us cannot know what we would do, trapped in a situation that required such a seemingly no-win decision. But I do know that anyone wanting to recover from psychological trauma must face just this kind of dilemma, made yet more harrowing because her circumstance is not anything so rescuable as being locked in a house, but rather involves a solitary, unlockable confinement inside the limits of her own mind.