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Mind Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
- It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
- To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its…
- When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
- My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
- ...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
- I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth…
- This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
- Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard…
- Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she…
- Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
- You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish…
- I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of…
- and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...
- I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place...
- In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle