The Mind Quotes

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

Relationships never end, because they're of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit.

The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'

When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

I'm everything they are afraid of. Everything they hate. Everything they try to hide and a lot more. Besides, I speak my mind and show people what's out there in reality.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

I don't digest things with my mind.