The Mind Quotes

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.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

Purify the mind through selfless service.

Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.

I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

I don't wanna be shaped like a girl. I love being shaped like a woman, and trust me ladies, your man won't mind either.