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Mind Quotes
"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."
Mind,
6
"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."
6
"You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind."
6
"It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again."
Mind,
6
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
6
"Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say."
6
"The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."
6
"Sight is seeing with the eyes, vision is seeing with the mind."
6
"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."
5
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind,
5
"The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones."
Mind,
5
"Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind."
Mind,
5
"The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme - thinking too much."
5
"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."
5
"In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it."
5
"There is a strange intangible place on the outside edges of the human mind. It hangs there like a constant witness. It judges a person's every move, every thought and every action. Some people think it is "big brother or God, but it is just a critical place inside the person's own mind that judges and condemns. It is the very place where we judge ourselves when we cross Rainbow Bridge into Heaven."
5
"Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea."
5
"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."
5
"I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened."
5
"It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world."
5
"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
5
"You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill."
5
"But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting."
5
"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
Mind,
5
"Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!"
4
"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."
Mind,
4
"A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much."
4
"Don't let your mind drown out your intuitive voice, train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence."
4
"If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don't have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!"
4
"She knew that she had a tendency to allow her mind to wander, but surely that's what made the world interesting. One thought led to another, one memory triggered another. How dull it would be, she thought, not to be reminded of the interconnectedness of everything, how dull for the present not to evoke the past, for here not to imply there."
4
"As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements."
4
"Spend some time alone every day."
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