Charles Godfrey Leland Quotes

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

The actuality of thought is life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

The key to every man is his thought.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

We are what we think.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

A man without words is a man without thought.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!