The Mind Quotes

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him.

Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!

I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

Never practice without a thought in mind.

I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve

A thought come in my mind, have the people of Gujarat elected me to adorn my home? NO...if I want to adorn something. It will not be my home. It will be my Gujarat.

Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

There's no such thing as part freedom.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.

Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.

Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.