If you can understand loneliness and go beyond it, then you will find there is no need to escape, no urge to be gratified or entertained, for your mind will know a richness that is incorruptible and cannot be destroyed. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: mind loneliness satisfaction entertainment gratitude Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: humanity history commonality mind power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does —Virginia Peterson More about this quote Tags: mind memory experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: mind power strength Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: mind learning knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. —Maxine Hong Kingston More about this quote Tags: mind learning universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. —Eckhart Tolle More about this quote Tags: mind body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We cannot imprison the mind in the brain. The mind is in every cell of our body and also extends into the whole universe. —Deepak Chopra More about this quote Tags: mind universe body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: wonder mind religion perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Knowledge is the life of the mind. —Abu Bakr More about this quote Tags: life mind knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let your mind alone, and see what happens. —Virgil Thomson More about this quote Tags: mind curiousity letting be Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: mind money work energy job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can’t remember? The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn’t bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights? —Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock More about this quote Tags: life history mind memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To strengthen the mind you must harden the muscles. —Michel Eyquem de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: mind strength body muscles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trying to forget really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time. —Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me More about this quote Tags: mind ignorance memory forgetting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email