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Quotes About Mind

When you look into the signs of war, you find they are in the mind. When there is unexpressed anger in the heart, this is already war! Hateful looks and angry faces are war; boastful words and shoving matches are war. Exaggerated contention and aggressive combat are war.
~ Sun Tzu
Don't be surprised if your mind plays tug-of-war between wanting to do something new and wanting to go back to the familiar. It is a natural human reaction to resist change. At first, remind yourself to keep an open mind, even if you don't like the new activity. Tell yourself, "Give it a try" and "Stick with it.
~ Susan Albers
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools. [written with Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
~ Susan B. Anthony
Geist und Tat. Spirit and Action.
~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.
~ Susan Cooper
Minds hold more than they know.
~ Susan Cooper
No demon can withstand the power of Christ," said my father, repeating the words he had used long ago, and what he meant was that no dissociated mind can withstand the integrating power of the Living God whose spark lies deep in the core of the unconscious mind and who can not only heal the shattered ego but unify the entire personality.
~ Susan Howatch
Thoughts are energy, and you can make your world or break your world by your thinking.
~ Susan L. Taylor
Oil). In addition to placing several drops on the feet, wrists or ankles, one may also choose to apply to the neck on a daily basis to calm the mind and balance "the blues."   Finally, please note, this wonderful and aromatic essential oil tends to be pricier than other oils; however, it is certainly worth it! Clove
~ Susan Scott
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.
~ Susan Sontag
Philosophy is an art form—art of thought or thought as art
~ Susan Sontag
Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.
~ Susan Sontag
Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind's need or capacity for self-estrangement.
~ Susan Sontag
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. —John Banville
~ Susan Wiggs
Having a mind that cannot stay quiet, I've never been able to meditate without going stir-crazy. But give me a ball of dough and the not-so-distant dream of a piping hot cherry tart with a beautiful lattice-weave top and a generous sprinkling of confectioners sugar, and a feeling of serenity washes over me. My mind instantly hushes. ---Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
~ Susan Wiggs
I drew the things of nature, leaves and berries, shore grasses and nuts and long fronds of fern. I drew a curlew perched at the end of a pier, and a cormorant with wings outstretched to catch the breeze. Drawing is a way to make sense of the world in my heart and mind. I speak through my drawing and sometimes I discover my own feelings that were hidden from me.
~ Susan Wiggs
In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows.
~ Susanna Clarke
May I ask you something? Dr Greysteel nodded.Are you not afraid that it will go out? What will go out? asked Dr Greysteel. The candle, Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. The candle inside your head.
~ Susanna Clarke
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.
~ Susanna Clarke
The mind is a different organ by night and by day.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?
~ Joseph Stefano
Every man's memory is his private literature."- Aldous Huxley
~ Joseph Walker
All too long, those who teach of God have taught the worlds the evolutionary process of the soul as if the soul must advance itself from the physical body to the mind and then to the spirit. But this has never been God's way, and all who have sought God have misunderstood God's plan but for only a handful and a few. The Earth is God's key world that He
~ Joseph Whitfield
That's because the guitar is speaking to you, bringing your senses alive. Music is an age-old language. It speaks to everyone, young and old. It lifts the spirit and touches the heart, when it stops it lives on inside you, making you richer in mind and spirit.
~ Josephine Cox