Mary Roach Quotes

The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great ambitions, achievements. Dreams and desires, that is the stuff mind is made of. But it surrounds you like a China Wall. And because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.