Top 33 My Mind Wanders Quotes
#1. My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
Jasper Fforde
#2. I try to forget you more often than not but somehow my mind wanders to places my heart feels are oh so very true.
Nikki Rowe
#3. Sometimes my mind wanders; other times it leaves completely
Anonymous
#4. My mind wanders back to the dream, to Christian, the way he's always looking out for me, catching me, keeping me on my feet. He's becoming my guardian, maybe. Someone who is there to keep me on my path.
Cynthia Hand
#5. My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.
Bob Thaves
#6. My mind wanders to the other side of the courtyard, where St. Clair waits with Josh in Q-through-Z. I wonder if I have any classes with him. I mean, them. Classes with them.
Stephanie Perkins
#8. It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.
Rory Bremner
#9. My mind wanders and I drift off into La-La Land. I dream about Thalassic City. About opportunity. And second chances. About actually living.
Siobhan Davis
#10. Even this cold, this fearful, your mind wanders. You've lost a mile not knowing you were walking.
Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
#11. While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. We reason, that is, our mind wanders, each time our courage fails to force us to pursue an intuition through all the successive stages which end in its fixation, in the expression of its own reality.
Marcel Proust
#14. What man does not know,
Or has not thought of,
Wanders in the night
Through the labyrinth of the mind.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. Even when your mind wanders, it's going someplace, and all that travelling adds up ...
Margaret Wrinkle
#16. For loss is what we live with all the time. / None knows this better than the mind should know, the mind / that wanders, and cannot tell our name, itself / all seeds and survivals, little else, poor blind.
William Bronk
#17. If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders. -Unknown
Vi Keeland
#18. She tends to get distracted. Her mind wanders and amuses itself elsewhere.
Terry Pratchett
#19. The mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.
Marwane Caber
#20. Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)
Swami Satchidananda
#21. In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.
S. Truett Cathy
#22. With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#23. the lonely mind wanders.
the happy mind goes.
the weary mind travels.
the thoughtful mind flows.
Barry DeCarli
#24. The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
Jack Henry Abbott
#25. When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#26. As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#27. Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it under self-control
Krishna, the mind is faltering,
violent, strong, and stubborn;
I find it as difficult
to hold as the wind.
Vikram Seth
#28. Without time as a reference, the mind sits idly by and wanders into the ways of dark imaginings and evil works
~Hecate
M.L. Stephens
#29. Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. Say: If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.
Laura Miller
#31. If your brain does not receive sufficient stimulus, it might find something else to do - it daydreams, it wanders, it thinks about itself. If this goes on too long, it can affect your mind's normal functioning. Chronic boredom correlates with depression and attention deficits.
Deborah Blum
#32. He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#33. She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.
Comte De Lautreamont
