Brain Quote by Deepak Chopra

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

— Alison Bechdel

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from…

— Eric Hoffer

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

— Richard Davidson

We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things…

— Alan Watts

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined…

— Bertha von Suttner

“When you take a moment to peel back the layers of time and space in your current state of perception, you soon begin to…

— Gary Hopkins

The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness…

— Thomas Keating

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

— Jack Kornfield

“We are born with impulses that draw us to others and that later in life make us care about them.”

— Frans de Waal

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be…

— RM