Mind Quotes
As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.
The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary".
Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.
Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.
The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.
It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
