Quotes tagged ‘Mind’

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“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”

“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is…”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“It's amazing how far you can push your body. It's your mind that needs convincing.”

— Dave Foreman, twitter.com

“The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.”

— Mark Rippetoe, amazon.com

“It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“The heart will tell you what; the mind will tell you how.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“[Discussing his, and the other Beat Writer's style of writing poetry] First thought, best thought.”

— Allen Ginsberg, en.wikiquote.org

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”

— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com

“Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“Success begins with a state of mind. If you want success start thinking of yourself as a success.”

— David Beckham, instagram.com

“Train your mind to see the good in every situation.”

— Unknown, instagram.com

“Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.”

— Katherine Paterson, amazon.com

“Oh God, my mind is going a mile an hour.”

— Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, amazon.com

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“'My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners—my behavior to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?' 'For the liveliness of your mind, I did.'”

— Darcy, Elizabeth, amazon.com

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

— Bernard M. Baruch, amazon.com

“I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was n…”

— Marian Keyes, amazon.com