Body Quote by John Keats

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

— John Keats

“...each day I sit down in purposeful concentration to write in a notebook, some sentences on a buried truth, an unnamed reality, things that…

— Andrea Dworkin

I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was…

— Hanshan

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

— Rudy Rucker

The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the…

— Randall Duk Kim

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

— Chin-Ning Chu

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world…

— Jeff Kober

“The mind is nothing you use,' I say. 'The mind is just there. It is like the wind. You simply feel its movements.”

— Haruki Murakami

I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge…

— Ken Keyes Jr

I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come…

— Pico Iyer