Mind Quotes

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Willingness to learn is the mark of a youthful mind.

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Superman can fly high way up in the sky 'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine...It's all in the mind.

They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.