The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
—H. P. Lovecraft
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
—Malcolm Forbes
A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1… no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.
—Ann Faraday
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
—Steven Wright
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
—Elias Canetti
Our thoughts limit what we're capable of doing. There are external forces arrayed against us, but there are also internal forces that sabotage us before we even get started. Our mind is good at setting us up for failure and getting us to think small. But I have found that we will do for love that which we don't think is possible. So the question to ask ourselves is "What do I love?
—Julia Butterfly Hill
I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.
—Amy Tan
Nonattachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.
—Stephen Levine
Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.
—Chögyam Trungpa
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
—Christopher Morley
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
—Winston Churchill
I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind.
—Donna Lynn Hope
If you're condemned to death they have to give you one last meal of your choice. What is that all about? A group of people plans to kill you, so they want you to eat something you like? Do they think the food part will take your mind off the dying part? Or do they prefer to kill you when you're just coming off a peak experience and full of positive energy?
—George Carlin
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick