Quotes About Our Minds

#1. TV pollutes our minds and dulls our senses. It is a babysitter that molests children. And yet those who are on the television scream "first amendment" and "freedom of speech". How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?

James Rozoff

#2. Seasons change. Though humans are creatures of habit, we can easily adapt if we allow our minds to be like water. The people who have lived there can live elsewhere and will be okay. It's only when we hold onto the past that change becomes painful.

N'Dia Rae

#3. Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

Truman Capote

#4. When we allow IRRELEVANCE to clog our minds...we are taking energy away from the RELEVANT!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#5. Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

Walter Mosley

#6. Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

Charles L. Allen

#7. So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Anything you can think of, anything you can imagine- is real.. somewhere. We dream of such things, here on earth, never realizing in our dream-state our minds are peering into other worlds.

Anya Allyn

#10. The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds

Siddharth Katragadda

#11. We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

Leo Buscaglia

#12. The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.

John Calvin

#13. Thoughts repeated over time, no matter how incorrect, become consolidated in our minds as beliefs because we've repeatedly affirmed them over and over again.

Sam Owen

#14. The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.

Shams Tabrizi

#15. The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the great sin, is to say: It will heal; it has healed; there is no wound. There is nothing more important than this wound.

Whittaker Chambers

#16. When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.

Sherry Turkle

#17. When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.

Deepak Chopra

#18. Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Adam Gopnik

#19. I think it's some kind of meeting of energies that causes what we see, and that part of those energies emanate from our lifeforces, our minds.

Walter Mosley

#20. These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered by time and regret.

Jess Walter

#21. Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

Starhawk

#22. It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.

Linda Stone

#23. Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

William Wordsworth

#24. Though we labor with our minds, this place we can relax in was built by someone who can work with his hands. And his work is as noble as ours. I think the poet owes something to the guy who builds the cabin for him.

Studs Terkel

#25. Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.

Ray Simpson

#26. Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?

Evelyn Lau

#27. Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#28. Thoughts are not facts, and we are not our thoughts. Knowing this, we can enjoy more flexibility in our minds and lives.

Jonty Heaversedge

#29. Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.

Bryant McGill

#30. God didn't tell us to suspend our minds he rather challenged us to come and reason, to use our reasoning faculties.

Sunday Adelaja

#31. If our minds are those of hunter-gatherers, our cuisine is that of ancient farmers.

Yuval Noah Harari

#32. We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhmanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.

Robinson Jeffers

#33. The bounds of our past hold no restrictions on our minds, other than those imposed by our minds" ~ Alex Just

Alex Just

#34. Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

Fulton J. Sheen

#35. We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

Pema Chodron

#36. It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

Donald Johanson

#37. To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.

Joseph Pilates

#38. Like thieves in the night, unwelcome thoughts can and do seek entrance to our minds. But we don't have to throw open the door, serve them tea and crumpets and tell them where the silverware is kept!

Jeffrey R. Holland

#39. There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

Maya Angelou

#40. We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.

Jen Wilkin

#41. In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."

Frederick Lenz

#42. When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.

Bryant McGill

#43. The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Paul Tournier

#44. With every sunrise, our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get energized with new life.

Debasish Mridha

#45. What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

A.W. Tozer

#46. It is critically important that as we age and our bodies become less flexible our minds become more so.

Steven A. Segal

#47. She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

Jerry Spinelli

#48. I've come to believe that we, as people, only tend to remember only certain of what we hear or read just for that reason. Most of what we retain coincide with our personal beliefs and feelings and the rest, we throw away into the back of our minds where we keep it or forget it entirely.

Celia Mcmahon

#49. If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.

Sun Tzu

#50. We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God

Lysa TerKeurst

#51. If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

Tony Robbins

#52. We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

Oswald Chambers

#53. You made peace," said the buffalo man. "You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here - and the people who worshiped them were here - because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.

Neil Gaiman

#54. I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that.

Khloe Kardashian

#55. I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

Winifred Holtby

#56. We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

R.D. Laing

#57. To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

James Kenneth Stephen

#58. In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

Asa Don Brown

#59. I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

Johnny Depp

#60. Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

Jill Scott

#61. It is such a simple formula: The more senses we bring to the moment, the more time slows, the more a catalogue of joyful vivid memories grows in our minds, the more life is filled with gratitude, and the more nourished our soul.

Brendon Burchard

#62. Just because our brains are limited in size, does not mean our minds need be.

Jeffrey Fry

#63. Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

Thomas Merton

#64. The only obstacle is the absence of the knowledge in our minds of the wisdom of God that is able to move any mountain

Sunday Adelaja

#65. We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.

Anna M. Aquino

#66. Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

Elihu Burritt

#67. There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding

Sunday Adelaja

#68. Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

John Tillotson

#69. Our minds are like certain vehicles,
when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.

Elihu Burritt

#70. In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

Antonin Artaud

#71. Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

Lysa TerKeurst

#72. The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Charles R. Swindoll

#73. We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Sharon Salzberg

#74. By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

Robert Winston

#75. We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

John Irving

#76. We are weak, watery beings standing in the midst of unrealities; therefore let us turn our minds to the things that are everlasting.

Seneca.

#77. Most effectively, if we are made to feel accountable in our judgments, we will spend more time looking at angles and possibilities before making up our minds - and so will expend the correctional

Anonymous

#78. When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#79. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

James Beattie

#80. The past isn't always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

Laura Miller

#81. If the first kiss made me hollow this kiss fills me up. I've been waiting for this since the day I met her, since I saw her dreams, since her voice began haunting me, since I got to know the person she is, since our minds connected. Everything has come to this.

Saruuh Kelsey

#82. Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.

Ansel Elgort

#83. The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

Aaron Belz

#84. The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#85. Memories change and shift, ferment in our minds; they are never the same when we take them out as they were when first we put them in.

Angela Slatter

#86. When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

Nhat Hanh

#87. Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Samuel Butler

#88. Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Debbie Ford

#89. We cannot enter the monstrous schizophrenic morass of Nazi internecine intrigue; our minds cannot adapt.

Philip K. Dick

#90. Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts.

Alistair Begg

#91. Consciousness is not a thing. It is a continuum without boundaries. We can most readily see its presence or absence in the extremes. In mussels, and in men. Is one of those extremes for birds found in ravens? Is it of sufficient magnitude for us to detect with our feeble detectors, our minds?

Bernd Heinrich

#92. What you really want to know," I say, "is how to make sure we all don't just rip each other apart, right?" The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us apart.

Beth Revis

#93. Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.

Neil Postman

#94. The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds' commands.

H.E. Davey

#95. Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

Mark Batterson

#96. When we're struggling, we don't need a book in our hands. We need the right words in our minds. When things are tough, a mantra does more good than a manifesto.

Eric Greitens

#97. We have all had teachers who sought to educate us by feeding alien ideas into our minds, ideas for which we felt no spiritual or intellectual kinship. These we dutifully tried to integrate into our total spiritual philosophy but always without success.

A.W. Tozer

#98. We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Margaret MacMillan

#99. Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

Randy Alcorn

#100. If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work

Bangambiki Habyarimana