Our Minds Quotes

908 Our Minds quotes by 670 unique authors

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned… — Sharon Salzberg
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of… — Lloyd Jones
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds — Thomas Merton
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… — Neil Gaiman
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is… — Bertrand Russell
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind… — Edwin Way Teale
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew — Jerry Spinelli
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power… — Marcus Aurelius
Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we… — Cecelia Ahern
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the… — Nancy Pearcey
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn,… — Veronica Roth
Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified… — Stephenie Meyer
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are… — Sharon Salzberg
There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to… — Mary E. Pearson
We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of… — Nicholas G. Carr
We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other,… — Alyson Noel
All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't think it's that… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure… — Terence McKenna
So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our… — Robert Frost

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