Quotes About Mind

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

The most important lesson Louise learned a week before her ninth birthday was the hardest one to keep in mind. Sometimes what sounded like a good plan wasn't.

If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.

Contrary to my previously held belief, hunger does NOT, in fact, sharpen the mind.

I'm not an Alpha! I don't want an Omega. Or toys. I don't want anything!" But you. "Your mind is not clear.

Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.

happiness is a state of mind. The glass is half empty. The glass is half full. It's pouring rain. The flowers will grow. I am going to die one day. I am alive on this day.

As Wegner explained, "We stay awake worrying that we cannot sleep, and we spend all day mentally in the refrigerator when we are hoping to diet.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

A free conscience is not bound by its own opinion."

Light up your life by turning on your brain."

The difference between the human and the zombie is that the human dominates the conscience and the zombie is consciousness-dominated.

Use your thoughts so you don't atrophy the brain.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Instead of shunning the darkness, we can face straight into it with an open mind. When we do that, the unknown changes. Fearful things become understandable and a truth is suggested: the enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark. WHITLEY STRIEBER, COMMUNION

Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a lady in a flowered dress.

not only is consciousness in us, we are in consciousness.