“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.”— Alain de Botton, goodreads.com
“Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.”— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com
“Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.”— Sam Harris, 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
“Every man’s world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.”— Erwin Schrodinger, amazon.com
“These thoughts, whether from inside me or from external things, soon become too intense.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open?”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.”— Adam Elenbaas, goodreads.com
“The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I believe there are only two unstoppable forces in the universe. One is love, the other is intelligence. I also believe that a person’s capacity to love is directly related to their intelligence level, just as hate corresponds to a person’s level of ignorance. The only thing that makes it impossible…”— Damien Echols, amazon.com
“Sometimes the truth of the thing is not so much in the think of it, but in the feel of it.”— Stanley Kubrick, amazon.com
“The body and mind always want to explore a frontier. It cost me nothing to explore.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it’s ‘War and Peace’ every day.”— Rufus Wainwright, goodreads.com