The Mind Quotes

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

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

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one.

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

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

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.