Mental Freedom Quotes

If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

They [the clergy] believe that any power confided in me will be executed in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly. For I have sworn on the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

No man can use his brain to think for another.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

Occasionally, you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.