Quotes About Mind

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

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.

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!

See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

Sullivan came to feel that human activity and human mind are not things that reside in the individual, but rather are generated in interactions among individuals; personalities are shaped to fit interpersonal niches and are not understandable unless that complex, interactive honing process is taken into account.

developmental theorists envision a mind rent by vertical splits between different self-states that have not been integrated with one another.

For Plato, the quickening of the heart that occurred when a person saw his or her loved one was just a step in the ascent to true love, which could happen only in the mind, after the lover comprehended what was eternally true and beautiful in the beloved. Platonic love existed beyond all the blood and heat contained in the heart. This split between passion and piety, between lust and love, would resonate throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and it continues up to the present day.

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one. But the light bulb has really got to want to change.

Even though God may be unknown to us, he is near and willing to reveal himself. God has promised that "if you look for me in wholeheartedly, you will find me" (Jeremiah 29:13). Turning over our will involves accepting God as he is instead of insisting on creating him in our own image. When we seek God with an open heart and mind, we will find him.

37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'a 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'a 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

he looked forward to the day when all men could free themselves from the "tyrant of spirits," when all appetites would be controlled, all passions subdued, and "mind, all conquering mind," would rule the world.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

For many, his reference to the work of a transcendent mind merely demonstrated that he was unable to abandon an outmoded idealistic approach.