Quotes About Mind

Richard Linklater

Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. Use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. … Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies.

Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,That from the nunneryOf thy chaste breast and quiet mind,To war and arms I fly.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Age was authority in the sixteenth century, and More's deep reverence for his father showed a general habit of mind that offered a way of managing uncertainty. If the authority of experience can be trusted, there may be in respect for age a way of fending off questions that might otherwise overwhelm.

he folded the parchment and put it away. The words raised some questions in his mind but as there was no one to ask he decided it was better to have good advice you didn't entirely understand than poor precepts that were perfectly clear.

Chicago," Bright answered sardonically, "is not just a place. It's a state of mind.

Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well.

There is clearly a biochemical component to depression, and medication can be helpful for many people, but medication alone is not sufficient treatment for most.

Anxiety develops a hair trigger, ready to go off at stimuli that we don't even notice. Not understanding what made us anxious, the conscious mind searches for an explanation, and often enough creates its own.

there's evidence to show that "certainty" is only a feeling, like anger or excitement, the result of unconscious forces at work in the brain.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

Survivor's guilt is a peculiar thing. Why would our psyche torture itself for doing what it was primarily designed for?

Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.

Humans waste far too much time worrying about things that will never befall them. It's my experience that the greatest tragedies are the ones that don't even cross our minds—the events that blindside us on a Friday afternoon when we're wondering how to spend our weekend.

Aguilera is a man who has provided wise counsel over the years, has demonstrated an acute mind and an ability to view things from a perspective different from that of most people. And I think that a different perspective is exactly what we need in this situation." "I

The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn't seem to squelch the need to hear the words as he read.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, "Chance favors the prepared mind.