Quotes About Mind

The only power that exists is inside ourselves…

One can kill the gifts one is given, any of them and all of them, if one is determined to do so, and pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Son tu conciencia y tu voluntad las que deben mantenerte vivo.

I thought the curse of memory is this: Everything is ever present.

And I suppose I do believe, in the final analysis, that a peace of mind can be obtained in the face of the worst horrors and the worst losses. It can be obtained by faith in change and in will and in accident; and by faith in ourselves, that we will do the right thing, more often than not, in the face of adversity.

Flavius has never put a single question to us as to what we were. In his mind, I found, devotion and acceptance far superseded curiosity or fear.

My mind said, Sleep. But more profoundly, my mind said, Dream.

I have learned to live with a profound loneliness. I forget about it for years and years. Then it surfaces, the desire to be placed in context by somebody else. The desire to be known, understood, evaluated morally by a sophisticated mind.

His mind was horrifyingly empty and still; and he felt the loneliness and the stillness of the rooms completely.

Maybe all of life has a mind,' she said, her eyes roving over the small room, over the empty tables. 'Maybe the flowers watch us. Maybe the trees think and hate us that we can walk. Or maybe, just maybe they don't care. The horror of Lasher is that he has begun to care!

Nem tehetünk egyebet - gondolta magában -, mint küzdünk az életben maradásért, megÅ'rizzük ép elménket, és tanúként szemlélve a világot abban reménykedünk, hogy ez az egész valahogy értelmet nyer.

Everything that is conscious, aware of itself, has a soul.

Weary of the Mind Gift and its random messages, he wanted to hear spoken words.

the mind can find no meaning, then the senses give it. Live for this, wretched being that you are.

There was no place for the poetry or history which had come from a greedy mind and heart.

Lascia che sia la carne a insegnare alla mente

What is it in me that will not acknowledge my admiration for her mind, her beauty, her exquisite understanding of all things?

Memory knows that we cannot endure its company.

How had he read from my mind, my desire for Amadeo?

Loneliness and solitude have imprinted her most strangely on my mind. I see her. I hear her voice.

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing tin pans all over, pouring water on pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortals will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.)

It was a very great miracle you revealed," he whispered. "Let him ponder it until he has made its greatness small enough for his mind.

His mind was full of the verbal instruments by which he could bring about his own despair.

I had to dream, dream of the old Venetian days when I had been a beauty well known to myself from the tailor's glass, and project that vision right into their minds even if it took all the strength I possessed; yes, that, and I must give them some instructions.