“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel—drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”— Buddha, amazon.com
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”— Frank McCourt, amazon.com
“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I am haunted by you and the haunting is stealing the words from my heart and the clarity from my mind.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'”— Maya Angelou, poemhunter.com
“She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it, and pour out endearing names upon it. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand,…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com
“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“the area dividing the brain and the soul is affected in many ways by experience – some lose all mind and become soul: insane. some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. some lose both and become: accepted.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, amazon.com