Quotes About Mind

Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.

Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg

There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

Neurosis is the result of willing the spontaneous.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Pride and ingratitude are my biggest character defects. Pride is that hardened part in my mind that needs to be softened by humility and a sense of humor. Making a gratitude list is essential to my daily recovery. I frequently include what I did right each day in my gratitude lists; I believe my focus determines what I become.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

If people say the world we perceive is a 'construct' of our brains, they are saying in effect, that it results from an inveterate habit of thought. Why does it never occur to them that a habit is something you can overcome, if you set about it with enough energy?

Agriculture and war, we feel, were the primary businesses of life, and it was to these that the Roman mind instinctively flew when it was casting about for some means of expressing a new abstract idea—of realizing the unknown in terms of the known. Not often could the warlike city afford to beat her swords into ploughshares, but she was constantly melting both implements into ideas.

Interior is anterior.

For inconsistent and slovenly thought can abide indefinitely in error without any feeling of discomfort.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Mind you, it's all bullshit with wine, isn't it? It's just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.

Nekem szavakról szavak jutnak az eszembe és viszont.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat — in other words, turn you into an adult.

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

Thoughts are just as real as words.

Mind is everything. Muscle — pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

If, upon looking outwards towards the external expanse of the sky, There are no projections emanated by the mind, And if, on looking inwards at one's own mind, There is no projectionist who projects [thoughts] by thinking them, Then, one's own mind, completely free from conceptual projections, will become luminously clear. [This]