“I want to be my own law, I have a right to myself, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The mind and flesh of man are set on fire by pride; for it is precisely in his wickedness that man wants to be as God. Confession in the presence of a brother is the profoundest kind of humiliation. It…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Our minds, it turns out, are very good at persuading us to follow intuitions about happiness that turn out to be entirely wrong.”— Adam Sternbergh, thecut.com
“Every time you take in the good, you build a little bit of neural structure. Doing this a few times a day—for months and even years—will gradually change your brain, and how you feel and act, in far-reaching ways.”— Rick Hanson, amazon.com
“Your mind is everything. All the mess causes u stress starts in your head. If you're weak it starts in your head. If you're strong it starts in your head. U make a decision today to be what u wanna be.”— Deion Sanders, twitter.com
“When I'm working on a book, I become so tangled up in it, I can't focus on anything else. But when I'm NOT working on a book, my thoughts get tangled up all on their own.”— V.E. Schwab, twitter.com
“Mind renewal is a slow, active work. In it, we let God’s Word tell us how to think and see and feel. Then life begins to change as the mind changes.”— Jackie Hill Perry, twitter.com
“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. . .”— Gerard Manley Hopkins, amazon.com
“The field of calm and free discussion in our country is open, and will always be so, but never has been and never can be traversed for good in a spirit of sectionalism and uncharitabilities.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.”— Walt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, Merriwether Williams, Patrick Star, Bill Fagerbakke, imdb.com
“So although talk of “mind” and “body” is technically inaccurate, it does capture an important functional difference between two systems: a slow, cold, conscious mind and a fast, hot, unconscious set of bodily instincts, hunches, and skills.”— Edward Slingerland, nautil.us
“In periods of stress and grief, not only does your mind do funny things, you say things that surprise you.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“It will take years, not just a couple of months, of education to change their thinking.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Scientists finally figured it out what woman wants! ... but she already changed her mind”— danasn, reddit.com
“Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.”— Bob Dole, amazon.com
“The key to any spiritual process is your mind. You must be willing to surrender your ego to a higher spiritual force.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“If you use your mind, time and energy to cause harm to anyone, sooner or later that pendulum will move in your direction.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Suffering is unnecessary and not at all required by the benevolent forces of life. If you currently have the exact opposite of what you desire, change your mind.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Often, we master thoughts, beliefs, and expectations about the very things we don’t want because of the silent, terrifying, unconscious thoughts that we repeat in our mind.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com