Mind

"Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can."

"Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide"

"Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn."

"Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality... Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense."

"Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar."

"Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea."

"Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit... Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart."

"To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky."

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

"Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for."

"There are some things your mind has been hiding from you."

"You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

"The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you."

"...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds."

"The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind."

"When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own."

"The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

"I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift."

"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked"