The Mind Quotes

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.

Health and well-being are the natural state of the body and mind.

As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

I think it would be frustrating to be a match maker. "What do you do?" "I'm a match maker" "Aw, that's really romantic" "No, umm... I actually... never mind"

You don't have to be a drug addict to care for your mind.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I knew or would meet. I just wrote urgently - naïvely, I suppose, looking back.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

I understand China, and I understand the Chinese mind. I understand where they're coming from. They are not our friend.

I don't mind releasing - I'm under a routine audit. And it'll be released.

I don't mind being at their side, with respect to the Ukraine. But why should we always be out front? How many times can we be out in front on these issues?

I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the money, but they don't. They waste the money.

My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.