Quotes About Mind

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don't allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Loneliness is a tax you have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.

Shortly after her older brother died, Chloe (who had just celebrated her eighth birthday) went through a deeply philosophical stage. I began to question everything, she told me, I had to figure out what death was, that's enough to turn anyone into a philosopher. Chloe would put her hand over her eyes and tell the family her brother was still alive because she could see him in her mind just as well as she could see them.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might originally have arisen across a multitude of years and been separated by extended stretches of bovine gazing. To meet an author whose books one has enjoyed must, in this view, necessarily be a disappointment... because such a meeting can only reveal a person as he exists within, and finds himself subject to, the limitations of time.

A good way of evaluating the wisdom of someone's ideas might be to undertake a careful examination of the state of their own mind and health. After all, if their pronouncements were truly worthy of our attention, we should expect that the first person to reap their benefits would be their creator.

Happiness is good for the body," Proust tells us, "but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

We need to tell ourselves a little more of the truth because we pay too high a price for our concealments. We cut ourselves off from possibilities of growth. We shut out large portions of our minds and end up uncreative, tetchy, and defensive, while others around us have to suffer our irritability, gloom, manufactured cheerfulness, or defensive rationalizations.

Romantic fatalism was no doubt a myth and an illusion, but that was no reason to dismiss it as nonsense. Myths may assume an importance that goes beyond their primary message, we don't have to believe in Greek gods in order to know that they tell us something vital about the mind of man.

Art compensates us for certain inborn weaknesses, in this case of the mind rather than the body, weaknesses that we can refer to as psychological frailties

Unlike today's ideologues, whom I would call single-minded if mind came into it at all, I have no fear of the state.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.

She was simply numb, her mind having absorbed all the fear it could, like a sponge saturated with water: after a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.

All disease is a denial of love, and all denial of love is fear.

The images we impress upon our mind, especially when accompanied by emotion, yield the same experience whether they are true or fictional.

Sometimes you can change the environment. Always you can change your mind. If you can change your environment from a sense of positive vision, you will succeed. Remember to work toward what you want rather than against what you resist.

si esperas librarte del miedo hay algunas cosas que debes comprender, y comprender plenamente. La mente es muy poderosa y jamás pierde su fuerza creativa. Nunca duerme. Está creando continuamente. Es difícil reconocer la oleada de poder que resulta de la combinación de pensamiento y creencia, la cual puede literalmente mover montañas […] No hay pensamientos fútiles. Todo pensamiento produce forma en algún nivel.

while most readers recognize the profound wisdom imbued in Tao Te Ching, the language remains mysterious to many. Utter simplicity can seem confusing to the complicated mind.

En la vida todo se basa en el poder de la mente sobre la materia.

The ego makes a lousy master, but an extraordinary servant. Think of the ego as a frightened child who has been given a job far bigger than it can handle. It is not equipped to make big decisions

Your body is wired. Your spirit is wireless.