Mind Quotes

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in...We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

If you're sloppy, that's just fine. If you're moody, I won't mind. If you're fat, that's fine with me. If you're skinny, let it be. If you're bossy, that's all right. if you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's all right too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Romeo wouldn't change his mind. That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

My mind is my own church.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that's when you get shooting stars.

I like money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it with joy, and it returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very good. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Religion is just mind control.

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

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

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

I must make up my mind which is right "“ society or I.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

Open your mind and let the pictures out

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

A great mind must be androgynous.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy "” not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.

Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates—hence the deadly frost—the free power of the mind—the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more—the person is alone, like a baleful power—as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually—and in accordance with his own principle he is—misanthropic and misotheos.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The best sex takes place in the mind first

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

By words the mind is winged.

Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along; but because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by biological patterns as social patterns are dominated by biological patterns and as biological patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. There is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter. As the atomic scientist, Niels Bohr, said, "We are suspended in language." Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

It's all about where your mind's at

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

Sir,' said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them—I look upon good novels—as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

A full mind is an empty bat.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

Great actions speak great minds.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

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

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension"”the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

The mind is just another muscle.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind"”like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

For me it's the challenge — the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police — because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.

Sanity's a virginity of the mind

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

Change the problem by changing your mind.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them...

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number.

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart...

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Nature's first great title—mind.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it"¦My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve.", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills/He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

Law is mind without reason.

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Language is the light of the mind

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.