The Mind Quotes

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

I never did mind about the little things.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Once I get in my mind that it's going to go "da da da dadada da da," then it's kind of like filling in the blanks.

Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

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

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

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

We move toward what we picture in our minds.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

When the mind is most empty It is most full.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.