The Mind Quotes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.

I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

You are a dynamic whole greater than the sum of your parts. By integrating your body, mind, and emotions through training, you reshape your life.

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.