Quotes About Mind

women had to be controlled and kept from going wild because of their inherent susceptibility to lust; thus men had to exercise aidos, "shame," and sophrosyne, "soundness of mind," to keep women from transgressing the bounds of propriety.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Yo creo que la mente se puede profanar permanentemente con el hábito de escuchar cosas triviales, de modo que todos nuestros pensamientos se teñirán de trivialidad.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.

A crazy place in my mind laughs to keep the world and my heart from breaking in two.

He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language.

Imagination was a killer.

Gravity has a hand. Bear in mind trapdoors. We fall in love, yes? Tumble, in fact. Is it choice? Enough said.

Peace of mind is not a simple matter of pursuing one's own pleasure; rather, it is inextricably linked to the attitudes of other human beings, to what they want, to what they expect.

His brain had the bends.

What does it mean when you remember something that you know never happened?

The world had kenneled a vicious lie in my brain…

And when a mind is too deficient in understanding, the resulting gap is often filled with resentment. —

The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork, stimulating the brain and freeing one's intellect.

At the city, at the clouds . . . and, in his mind's eye

Many of those skilled in technological warfare believe that physical training and discipline are unnecessary. With turbolasers, hyperdrives, armor plating and the mental resources to direct them, muscular strength and agility are thought to be merely conceits. They are wrong. The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork, stimulating the brain and freeing one's intellect.

The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messengers struggle toward us, killing one another along the way; and when a few survivors break through to our attention they are received as blandly as waiters bringing more coffee.

Memory is a dream to begin with.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El pasado no tiene poder sobre el momento presente (Eckhart Tolle)

You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of your manipulation of it, and its manipulation of you, and instead feel inserted so deeply inside the game that your mind, and your feelings, become as seemingly crucial to its operation as its many millions of lines of code. It is the sensation that the game itself is as suddenly, unknowably alive as you are.

When I read a novel I am not only surrendering; I am allowing my mind to be occupied by a colonizer of uncertain intent