Quotes About Mind

With my eyes blank, with my body numb and distant, with a mind full of the cold spinning depths of space, I focus all my attention, reach out an aim that's no more than a vision, and point.

Was one head dominant, or did they serve different functions?

I think the flutter of color in my head is Alan's equivalent of a sigh.

A plan was forming in her mind. She didn't look at the idea too closely, lest she startle it away.

I couldn't hold a thought. I couldn't accomplish a task without being distracted. And I couldn't keep my temper at all.

It was as if two different versions of reality coexisted in my head at the same time.

I strained against the fuzziness and fog that still infected me.

Consciences are the sort of thing that don't seem really desirable to have, unless you're currently using yours.

The feeling of being unguarded and unable to follow a mental thread was relentless.

Your thoughts are as squishy as the rest of you.

I couldn't think, couldn't reason. I certainly couldn't sleep reliably, or for long.

The opportunity to change my mind was legally mandated by the Synarche, of course. I couldn't cannot entirely to the clade until I turned twenty-five standard, and I had to do it, legally, while I wasn't under the influence of any turning or rightminding controlled by the clade.

Anxiety was a distraction I did not need.

Memories weigh something. They weigh you down.

Something filled the Earl's eyes-not fury, precisely, or desperation, but whatever it was the player's part of Will's mind saw it and recognized it as motivation. And saw in that silence the thing Salisbury wouldn't say. James is a terrible king.

Perhaps I had been dreaming, processing and refining old memories in the way you're supposed to process and refine newer ones.

Oxford smiled and Kit still knew him well enough to read the pleasure of a chess player who has successfully anticipated his opponent.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Lord John, do stop gaping. A woman can possess a mind. If men gave more countenance to what ladies thought, the world would be a much more prosperous place.

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.

The darkest prisons were those of the mind.

de las cumbres celestiales venid ángeles resplandecientes, ¡infundid luz a mi ser y mi mente!

The Dhammapada, a collection of sayings of the Buddha, tells us: "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday…. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart…. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.