Mind Quotes

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

To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,by what can't be it must be challenged...

~ Will Advise

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.

~ Scarlett Thomas

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

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

The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of a pawn the way a chess machine does. Even the most disciplined human mind wanders in the heat of competition. This is both a weakness and a strength of human cognition. Sometimes these undisciplined wanderings only weaken your analysis. Other times they lead to inspiration, to beautiful or paradoxical moves that were not on your initial list of candidates.

~ Garry Kasparov

My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with.

~ Catherine Lacey

The state of the mind defines a man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

you clutter my mindthoughts of you, thoughts of me with youthoughts that keep me from restthat ull me to sleep at nightyour words are like butterthey're smooth and they're richand they make the bitter bits better

~ Madisen Kuhn

i love good cries,loud sobs that soak your pillowthat kind that come at the endof a perfect bookyou're gasping for airas droplets of salt water trickle down your cheeksinto the corners of your mouthas your chest rises and fallsand your vision is blurredby the tearsbut your mind is so clear and your every thoughtin that moment feels so meaningfuland important and rightit feels okay to justlet it all outit makes you feel likeyou are free

~ Madisen Kuhn

Recognizing a problem may help us to understand and solve a problem. Rather than lying down and selling our sound judgment short, let us appeal to the opulent granary of our memory and explore the green pastures lingering in our mind. (Prêt-à-penser)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. (The world was somewhere else)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Madness exist in the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.That's not true. You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-- your self. You must believe in your own powers.

~ Haruki Murakami

If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reading renew the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is madness in the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Man can be a master of his mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips

~ Rupi Kaur

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

~ David Amerland

Like a battery, the human mind and body must be fully discharged to stretch their capacity.

~ Haresh Sippy

Since her time in the necromancer’s clutches, she was still recovering lost memories from the quicksand of her mind. They’d drop like nuclear bombs, freezing her at the worst time as visuals which should’ve stayed forever buried bubbled to the surface.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.

~ Steven Magee

Learning to leave his mind in meditation could be compared to snorkelling, which is breathing with his face under water. Which is just wrong!It had taken a lot of time and nagging for his brain to get used to snorkelling, for all those doubts and questions to be overcome - for him to relax and just breathe.Learning to leave his mind in meditation was the same kind of challenge; when there was a gap in his thoughts, when a space opened up, to resist the temptation to immediately fill it up - instead for him to relax and just breathe.

~ Matt Padwick

He kept coming back to the silence. It was so big. And surprising. Even when a donkey brayed somewhere in the same valley - loud, long and loaded with loneliness - it did not change the silence, it enhanced it. Like jewels around a beautiful neck. Ed smiled. You can be at the poshest hotel in the country, on the planet even, but a farmer can still put a lonely donkey in the field next door. In the same way he couldn't control what arose in his mind - or appears in the world around him - but he could give it space.

~ Matt Padwick

If you love someone...tell them often.If you haven't had time for loved ones... make it.If you've been holding someone hostage through anger...free them & yourself.If someone crosses your mind...reach out. Time waits for no one. Most of us have more time behind us than we do in front of us so live, love, laugh every chance you get. Create memories that outlive you!

~ Sanjo Jendayi

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

~ Yiyun Li

the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time

~ Sir James Hall

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

~ Stephen King