Quotes About Mind

Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

Si no conocemos los procesos que nos llevan a creer ciertas cosas, no seremos capaces de evitar creer ciertas cosas que en realidad son ficciones sin fundamento. Son cosas que aprisionan la mente como una soporífera y pesada tela de araña, y no le permiten cobrar altura. Son cosas que si usted las cree pueden llevarlo a la muerte prematura, y no querrá usted morir antes de tiempo, ¿verdad?

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.

the Spirit is the mind that is always present, bringing the best, most loving, most hopeful thought into the midst of every situation.

The body is not a product. It is an experience.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect.

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain to it.

"Why is thy mind so entangled," said the Master [Virgil], "that thou slackenest thy pace? What is it to thee what they whisper there? Come after me and let the people talk. Stand like a firm tower that never shakes its top for blast of wind."

las mujeres no sospechan que los varones podemos pasar horas enteras sin pensar, literalmente.

Un bon livre se retrouve toujours entre les mains d'un lecteur libre. Sinon il n'y reste pas longtemps, le mauvais lecteur cherche à se débarrasser de tout ce qui ne ressemble pas à ce qu'il a déjà lu. Lire n'est pas nécessaire pour le corps (cela peut même se révéler nocif), seul l'oxygène l'est. Mais un bon livre oxygène l'esprit.

Il faudrait réactiver cette chose délicieuse qui consiste à réfléchir sans se croire obligé d'accrocher au bout de sa pensée une opinion... on est devenu un lecteur mou en réflexion, mais dur en opinion.

Then there were other reasons for living too, ones that mortals rarely thought of but that raged like fires in Rachel's mind: To correct mistakes. To avoid regret. To accept regret. To change. But none of these seemed possible either.

Unforgiveness, bitterness, pride, even disappointment have the ability to rot the bones of man (see Proverbs 14:30).

David hit a point in his life when he knew that he had to get his mind back on the things of God. Revenge, discouragement, lust, greed—none of the ugly emotions of life were going to get him through his trials. Only God could do that. So that's where he needed to refocus his mind and life.

The old adage tells us "Garbage in, garbage out." I'm afraid too many of us who are believers in Christ don't take proper care of what we feed our minds. So much in the way of entertainment is not honorable. We are taught to be cynical and skeptical, even about truths of God. But God's Word doesn't warn us about the negative in these verses. Through Paul's letter to the Philippians, God tells us to fix our minds on the positive.

Every single time a self-doubting or fearful thought enters your mind, realize it, reject it, and replace it with faith.

Romantic love is pure fantasy. It destroys a woman's common sense; there simply is no place for it within the walls of a rational mind. You're better off eating a plug of chocolate!" Rachel in Small Pleasures: Mya's Story

IF YOU can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference. The semiattached figure is a device guaranteed to stand you in good stead. It always has.

With repentance comes a change of mind that effects a change of direction, since one's orientation of life is directed in faith to God.

Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.

The brain is an irrelevant topic of the century.

From the clear center of my heart, there are no edges to my loving you. I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there were no wall, what need of installing a window?" — RUMI