Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.  ~Pierre Cabanis, translated from FrenchDCMOO

Don’t let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. ~Terri Guillemets

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?  ~Zig Ziglar

When I feel well and in a good humor, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.  ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.  ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby RudgeDCMOO

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.  ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820LCD

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.  ~Arnold BennettCUL

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.  ~Charles Caleb ColtonDCMOO

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.  ~Cicero

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.  ~Henry Wadsworth LongfellowQSO

Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

The mind is like a trunk:  if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you. ~Terri Guillemets

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours.  You ought to get it out and dance on it.  That would take some of the rigidity out of it.  ~Mark TwainCUL

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind. ~Jack Adam Weber

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others:  many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance.  One may easily distinguish the two:  the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.  ~Sigmund Freud