Quotes About Mind

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

If you are caring for a young me, just listening is a huge support, but perhaps also remember the human mind is a powerful machine. Many years later I was with a young French special forces captain, in the most dangerous place in the world, on a base under attack from suicide bombers: 'People don't change when others tell them they should. People change when they tell themselves they must.

Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

My body urges me to take advantage of the situation, but my brain (the one inside my head) keeps me in check.

Ser judía es más algo de tu corazón que de tu mente. Para algunos, ser judío es seguir estrictamente las leyes y las costumbres de nuestros antepasados. Para otros, es ser parte de una comunidad. La religión es muy personal. Siempre estaré allí para ti si quieres o lo necesitas. Puedes elegir adoptar el judaísmo o decidir que tu vida no lo necesita. Nadie puede imponer la religión en ti o ésta no será real.

Ross's style is always beautifully matched to his material – spare, lean, honest, no gimmicks, and yet in its very simplicity setting up continuing echoes of the mind. (Margaret Laurence's Afterword)

You can have a slouch in your mind as well as you back.

Be careful not to make your mind your biggest enemy.

The only two things that you need not doubt, is your heart and mind. You are guided by your heart and lead by your mind.

Whatever decision you make, let it be the one that will set your mind free.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life—sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself—presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.

My mind to me a kingdom is;Such present joys therein I findThat it excels all other blissThat earth affords or grows by kind:Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

Man worships self: his God is Man; the struggling of the mortal mind To form its model as 'twould be, the perfect of itself to find.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Companion none is likeUnto the mind alone;For many have been harmed by speech,Through thinking, few or none.