“There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water’s waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.”
Source: THE BOOK on What Ever You're Into: These are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths you Need To Know to have a chance at Winning
“What do you think it is that makes a man"
I started on the Definition. He cut me of after five words.
"It is not!" he said. "A wax figure could have all that, and he'd still be a wax figure, wouldn't he?" ...
"Well, then, what makes a man a man is something inside him."
"A soul?" I suggested.
"No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.”
“Do not do her work for her. Do not build her up in your mind. She's only one woman.”
Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant
“Like a battery, the human mind and body must be fully discharged to stretch their capacity.”
“A jolt activates the mind like nothing else.”
“Let the spell collapse. Something inside him relaxed, like a ghost limb untensed; a mind-trick. The spell, the brain's equivalent of some tiny, crude, looping sub-programme collapsed, simply ceased to be said.”
Source: The Player of Games
“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World