Quotes About Mind

some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

One thought follows on the other, they are not distinct objects with clear boundaries; rather, one thought anticipates the next and thereby contains it. The thought that comes afterward contains the memory or trace of the former. Thus, the movement of thought within the mind requires a mathematics of implicate forms.

Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which do you believe in, luck or Destiny?" Joe considered a moment befoe replying, "We make our own luck, Ludlow, by our actions and our state of mind. As such you control your own fate. Oney one thing is certain: None of us can escape the grave.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Thrall is a feast of both visceral and existential horror – the gut tightens and the mind reels. Mary Sangiovanni joins that select cadre of women writers who are ignoring the safe old tropes and pushing the genre in new directions.

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because the tissues last forever, but because the imagination never dies

the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.

A nation which has people who can think, that nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, Eustaquio -- not instinct or habit.

Juggernaut: All right. Get the Doc to work -- now. Before I change my mind. Deadpool: Wow. Whaddaya know? LOGIC stops the Juggernaut!

No matter how shut in we are by weather, by physical handicaps or by such mental conditions as we manufacture for ourselves, we are still free people as long as the mind functions, the imagination is stirred and the desire to reach out, to experience, feel and know, is with us; as long as the heart beats and with it the pulses of love, interest, and empathy for and with other people.

The village road was as narrow as her old granny's mind.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

You must read, Alice, before it's too late. You must fill your mind with the invented images of the past: the more the better.

No existen recuerdos más activos y vigorosos que aquellos que se esconden detrás del velo misterioso de la amnesia.

The thoughts that nested in your folds, where are they now?

Ningún pensamiento cargaba sentimientos: podía pensar, tranquilamente en cosas tristes: solamente eran pesadas. Ahora se me acercaban los recuerdos como si yo estuviera tirado bajo un árbol y me cayeran hojas encima: las vería y las recordaría porque me habían caído y porque las tenía encima.

Por caminos muy distintos he tenido siempre los mismos recuerdos. De día y de noche ellos corren por mi memoria como los ríos de un país. Algunas veces yo los contemplo; y otras veces ellos se desbordan. p. 234

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

There is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on us are not our due, we are not angry with the author?s insincerity.

Psychologically, setting aside its expression in words, our thought is simply a vague, shapeless mass.