Mind Quotes - Page 33

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

Seneca

The mind can never be satisfied.

Wallace Stevens

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Wendy Wasserstein

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Walter de la Mare

True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly passions and affections of the mind; and in steadfastly and freely exerting and following good affections and dispositions, without being hindered by sinful fear or the opposition of enemies... Though Christian fortitude appears in withstanding and counteracting the enemies that are without us; yet it much more appears in resisting and suppressing the enemies that are within us; because they are our worst and strongest enemies and have greatest advantage against us. The strength of the good soldier of Jesus Christ appears in nothing more than in steadfastly maintaining the holy calm, meekness, sweetness, and benevolence of his mind, amidst all the storms, injuries, strange behaviour, and surprising acts and events of this evil and unreasonable world.

Jonathan Edwards

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--buttruth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.

Joseph Conrad

Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

Haruki Murakami

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

Frederick Salomon Perls

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Michel de Montaigne

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

Criss Jami

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

Teresa of Avila.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Hermann Hesse

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Tom Robbins

I thought about having a proper room,breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

Jenny Valentine

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

George S. Patton Jr.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

Rachel Ward

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Bruce Lee

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

Dean Koontz

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

Kristin Cashore

You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.

Haruki Murakami

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

Obert Skye

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

Steven Wright

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo da Vinci

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.

JoLynne Valerie

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

Samuel Beckett

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

Criss Jami

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Gary Zukav

Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn.

Rico Dasheem

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

William Feather

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

Alexander Shulgin

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

G.K. Chesterton

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

Edgar Allan Poe

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.

James A. Kitchens

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

Jeff Lindsay

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

Dee Remy

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Joyce

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

James Patterson

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Seneca

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

Vladimir Nabokov

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Joseph Conrad

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Isaac Asimov

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Bernard Malamud

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Haruki Murakami

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

Pete Wentz

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Bodhidharma

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

Idowu Koyenikan

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Gary Snyder

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

Scott Westerfeld

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