c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
— W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
— Stephen King, Rose Madder
The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.
— Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
A mind is like a puzzle
—  you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)
— Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
— Frank McCourt
Eye can only see something ifidea about it has been in mind.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modules are not encapsulated boxes or circumscribed swatches on the surface of the brain. The organization of our mental modules comes from our genetic program, but that does not mean that there is a gene for every trait or that learning is less important than we used to think. The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection, but that does not mean that everything we think, feel, and do is biologically adaptive. We evolved from apes, but that does not mean we have the same minds as apes. And the ultimate goal of natural selection is to propagate genes, but that does not mean that the ultimate goal of people is to propagate genes.
— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?
— Will Lavender, Obedience
If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
— Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
— Pierre Bourdieu
The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between brain and mind. Diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for which sufferers have much to answer. Individuals are to be blamed for their character flaws, defective emotional modulation, and so on; lack of willpower is supposed to be the primary problem.
— António R. Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.
— John Marsden, A Killing Frost
Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
The mind can never foresee its own advance
— Friedrich A. Hayek
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
— Emmanuel Mounier, Personalism
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
When all thoughtsAre exhaustedI slip into the woodsAnd gatherA pile of shepherd's purse.Like the little streamMaking its wayThrough the mossy crevicesI, too, quietlyTurn clear and transparent.
— Ryōkan
Magic is a science.Miracle is the work.Mind is a laboratory.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays."Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me.
— Orson Scott Card, Heartfire
Mental strength induces mind and body.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Maybe the human brain is an object beyond the reach of metaphor, for the simple reason that it is the only object capable of creating metaphors to describe itself. There really is nothing else like it. The human brain creates the human mind, and then the human mind tries to underhand the human brain, however long it takes and whatever the cost.
— Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28)
— António R. Damásio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes.To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies.Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark,Else upon your mind they'll place a mark;Do not listen to the shadows of the deep,Else they haunt you even when you sleep.
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
— Adam Gopnik
The weaker mind reacts.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
— Marcel Proust
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.
— Edgar D. Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds
When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within.
— Samael Aun Weor
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
— Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
— Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity even in my most seemingly fatigued moments, when I slip on ice and gyrate crazily but do not fall, when I unconsciously counter-steer my way into a sharp bicycle turn, taking advantage of physics I do not understand using a technique I am not even aware of using, when I somehow catch the dropped oranges before I know I've dropped them, when my wounds heal in my ignorance, I realize how much bigger I am than I think I am. And how much more important, nine times out of ten, those lower-level processes are to my overall well-being than the higher-level ones that tend to be the ones getting me bent out of shape or making me feel disappointed or proud.
— Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
— Anton Chekhov
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
— Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Land of the Blue Flower
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
— Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Spell is a structured words that creates miracles in mind.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
— Gautama Buddha
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
— George Gordon Byron
It's the mind that sees, not eyes.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The mind creates those things that exist.
— Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.
— Nancy Pearcey
The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
— David Mitchell, number9dream
If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.
— Orna Ross, After The Rising
The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As my mind tries to settle on it, it flutters away, like ashes caught in a breeze, and I realize that in my life there is a then, a before, though before what I cannot say, and there is a now, and there is nothing between the two but a long, silent emptiness that has led me here, to me and him, in this house.
— S.J. Watson
Լաւ է աչքով կոյր ըլլալ՝ քան մտքով:It is preferable to be blind by eyesight, than by mind.
— Saint Vardapet Eghishē
but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past
— Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.
— George Orwell, 1984
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.
— Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble.
— Sri Aurobindo, Integral Yoga: Teaching and Method of Practice
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.
— Arthur Lydiard
Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to "give up". Tell them "not me".
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.
— Sri Aurobindo, Integral Yoga: Teaching and Method of Practice
If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.
— Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps. ... In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange.
— António R. Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Your mind is your kingdom, and there you are ruler
— Jack Addington
Ամբողջ մարմնի կենդանութիւնը հոգին է, իսկ մարմինն ու հոգին կառավարողը՝ միտքն է:The whole essence of the body is the spirit, while the governor of both spirit and body is the mind.
— Saint Vardapet Eghishē
Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty
Emotional baggage,” which is carried over from the past, colors our perceptions. Likewise, past conclusions and beliefs, based on reasoning that may or may not have been accurate, also tint our perception of reality. Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.Emotional reactions can be unreasonable, and reason can be flawed. It’s difficult to have deep confidence in either one, especially when they’re often at war with each other. But the universal mind exists in the instant, in a moment beyond time, and it sees the universe as it literally is. It’s the universe perceiving itself. It is, moreover, something we can have absolute confidence in, and with that confidence, we can maintain a genuinely positive attitude.
— H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?
— Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.
— Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief.For my own part, though: It would have been catastrophe if I had forgotten my sister at once. I had never told her so, but she was the person I had always written for. She was the secret of whatever artistic unity I had ever achieved. She was the secret of my technique. Any creation which has any wholeness and harmoniousness, I suspect, was made by an artist or inventor with an audience of one in mind.Yes, and she was nice enough, or Nature was nice enough, to allow me to feel her presence for a number of years after she died—to let me go on writing for her. But then she began to fade away, perhaps because she had more important business elsewhere.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.
— Robert Dodson
The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.
— Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.
— Natalie Valdes, NIRVANA
The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark and Other Stories
there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice
— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
You could achieve nothing with wondered mind! you need to stop it!
— Kunal Jajal
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world
—  it plays an active role in creating realityitself.
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
— John Dewey, Art as Experience
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
— Meister Eckhart
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.
— James Allen
it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?
— Charles Darwin
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
— George Sheehan
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.
— Daniel J. Siegel, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.
— Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
I once visited a village of primitive people.At village, I felt time and life moved slower.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Not because we think that it's still about to happen, thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Think of how you feel when you are sick, or how you felt when you were learning to ride your bike. The physical state of your body has a direct effect on how you think about the world, on the state of your mind. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that your body has a direct effect on who you are
— Gregory Bassham, The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles
The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.
— Kevin Abdulrahman, The Book on What Ever You're Into: These Are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths You Need to Know to Have a Chance at Winning
What you feed your mind, will lead your life.
— Kemi Sogunle
There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water’s waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did.
— Jenny  Lawson
Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.
— Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.
— António R. Damásio
I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...
— Milton H. Erickson
For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.
— J.K. Rowling
There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless.I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be.And so I light out for the unknown regions.
— M.T. Anderson, The Kingdom on the Waves
What do you think it is that makes a man"I started on the Definition. He cut me of after five words."It is not!" he said. "A wax figure could have all that, and he'd still be a wax figure, wouldn't he?" ..."Well, then, what makes a man a man is something inside him.""A soul?" I suggested."No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.
— John Wyndham
Mind makes a man of God.
— Emmanuel Diogu
I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum.("Out Of The Deep")
— Walter de la Mare, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.
— Ashly Lorenzana
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.
— Mark Millar, Superman: Red Son
Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about our feelings at that moment. Do we sharpen the pencil carefully or nervously so that it doesn’t break? Do we bother to pay attention to what we’re doing? How do we sharpen the same pencil when we’re angry or in a hurry? Is it the same as when we’re calm or unhurried?Even the smallest movement discloses something about the person executing the action because it is the person who’s actually performing the deed. In other words, action doesn’t happen by itself, we make it happen, and in doing so we leave traces of ourselves on the activity. The mind and body are interrelated.
— H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
Games lubricate the body and mind.
— Benjamin Franklin
But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.
— Stephen King, The Long Walk
We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists . . . who often confuse their religion with their science.
— John C. Eccles, The Wonder of Being Human: Our Brain and Our Mind
Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind’s directives.
— H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo's claim that the earth was not the center of the solar system, put him under house arrest for the last eight years of his life? In part, the answer lies in the distinction between skepticism and closed-mindedness. Many scientists who were skeptical about cold fusion nevertheless tried to replicate the reported phenomenon in their own labs; Galileo's critics refused to look at the pertinent data.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.
— Gary Davis
Invariably, we all are 'MIND LORDS'.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Mind your mind, soon, you will mine from it.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Living threads more numerous than stars frame the universe of my mind.
— Daniel P. Kimble
Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.
— H.E. Davey
A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer.
— AainaA-Ridtz
The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)
— Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.
— Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.
— Pierre Janet
If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of our identity that throws a whirl of light on the secreted framework of our life. ("Labyrinth of the mind")
— Erik Pevernagie
a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done
— Fred Allen
A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Make up your mind! Whom you shall serve?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.
— John Forbes Nash Jr
The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention.
— Clifford D. Simak, A Choice of Gods
You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.
— Bert McCoy
The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds")
— Erik Pevernagie
You need to empty your mind, and relax each other muscle group until you feel like you are going to melt into the floor. Then you just let it all go. All the expectations, all the unneeded worry, all the things other people want for you but you don't want for yourself.
— Kasie West, Lucky in Love
The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
— Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief
Mind is basically the beginning of madness. And if you are too much in it, it will drive you mad.Mind has no certainity about anything. If you are betweeen two polarities of the mind,in a limbo--always to do or not to do,you will go crazy. You are crazy! Before it happens,jump out and have a look from outside at the mind.Mind is basically indecisive and awareness is basically decisive.So any act of awareness is total,full without repentance.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
What you envision for the future, out of fear or out of joy, will become reality as the sands of time carve those paths of thought into your mind and soul.
— Jason T. Rogers, Social, The Power of Relationships
The mind is a curious thing, Abby. We see what we want to see, we hear what we're hoping to hear. The one thing we all do well is fool ourselves.
— Shelley Peterson, Stagestruck
I don't think there is anything like the awareness of space to process emotion. That space is such an incredible processor. There is no analysis equal to the processing capacity of open awareness. When you are trying to analyze something, you don't realize that the analyzer itself is part of the problem. Both the problem and the analyzer are constructions of the mind. But direct, open, naked awareness is not a construction of the mind but the nature of the mind itself, and therefore the greatest processor ever.
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy
Where our attention goes, our mind and body go, too.
— Marty Rubin
Without renewal of mind, there is no transformation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Your Hands And Feet Gets Your MindTo Where It Wants To Be!
— Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
In doing you're not, rather in your non-doing you really are!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
You can have all the information on culture in the world–’ Pix continues.'We don’t possess all the information on culture, just three thousand, five hundred and thirty-four petabytes of data on human culture,’ I correct.Pix smiles and finishes, ’…But unless the words become a part of you, you never really understand, do you?
— M. Black, Exotiqa
The images in our mind is more vivid than the camera could ever produce.
— Raigon Stanley
The desire to retire early is an evidence of your current state of mind if you continue this way you will ‘retire early!!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
If you are on my mind, you be in my heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.
— Ally Carter, Only the Good Spy Young
For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions.
— Petek Kabakci
Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
SENSES, APPEARANCE and ESSENCEThe world we see through our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Senses perceive the world of appearance. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.
— Petek Kabakci
Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Sadly, the words "reliable" and "accurate" can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory.
— Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Empty mind is the devil's workshop...and busy mind kills creativity...
— Akansh Malik
I don't know why we live—the gift of life comes to us from I don't know what source or for what purpose; but I believe we can go on living for the reason that (always of course up to a certain point) life is the most valuable thing we know anything about and it is therefore presumptively a great mistake to surrender it while there is any yet left in the cup. In other words consciousness is an illimitable power, and though at times it may seem to be all consciousness of misery, yet in the way it propagates itself from wave to wave, so that we never cease to feel, though at moments we appear to, try to, pray to, there is something that holds one in one's place, makes it a standpoint in the universe which it is probably good not to forsake. You are right in your consciousness that we are all echoes and reverberations of the same, and you are noble when your interest and pity as to everything that surrounds you, appears to have a sustaining and harmonizing power. Only don't, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses—remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another's, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own. Don't melt too much into the universe, but be as solid and dense and fixed as you can. We all live together, and those of us who love and know, live so most. We help each other—even unconsciously, each in our own effort, we lighten the effort of others, we contribute to the sum of success, make it possible for others to live. Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. It wears us, uses us, but we wear it and use it in return; and it is blind, whereas we after a manner see …
— Henry James, Selected letters
I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it forged what felt like a wasteland of a reality.
— Andrew Kendall, The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
Thinking is mind over matter.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When there is no owner, there will be an abuser.
— Wayne Dougan
Everything you are is a feature of your brain, and as such much of what your brain does is dedicated to making you look and feel as good as possible. ]...] For example by modifying your memories to make you feel better about yourself.
— Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. ("Alpha and Omega")
— Erik Pevernagie
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be
— Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The mind is masterpiece.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as machine and the mind as anti-machine, delighting in its powers of combination and transgression. They fail as well to appreciate the extend to which the relative presence of these two sides of the mind is influenced by the organisation of society and of the culture, with the result that the history of politics is internal to the history of the mind. In these as in many other respects, our beliefs about ourselves resist acknowledging the relation between our context-shaped and our context-transcending identities and powers.
— Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Religion of the Future
To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,by what can't be it must be challenged...
— Will Advise
No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind.
— Anthony T. Hincks
What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
— R. D. Laing
Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I hate the honesty of the moring
—  the time before your consiousness switches on the light and gets rid of all the nasty shadows.
When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A president should be approachable; understanding of people's problems and needs; he should be fair and equitable; he should listen with an open mind and a closed mouth; he shouldn't make a decision without all the facts and above all else, he must be honest to the people.Anything else and he shouldn't be president.
— Anthony T. Hincks
To have a mind of Christ Jesus is to be full of compassion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Mediation on the Holy Scriptures, awakens our mind on Christ Jesus.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. ("Not on the shortlist")
— Erik Pevernagie
When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ("Lost the global story.")
— Erik Pevernagie
When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.
— Dada Bhagwan
A man is but his state of mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind, Gregor knew how to kill things, not bring them back ti life.
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor and the Code of Claw
An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He loathed the alien for attacking them, without any provocation. He hated the way it was smashing up his ship – and all of them – with hardly any effort or regard for life at all. “How’s that message coming?”“Umm – they must be jamming us, sir – I can’t get through.
— Christina Engela, Space Sucks!