Of My Mind Quotes

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds.

Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.

During weight cutting your mind plays tricks on you.

Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts!

Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

The secret of a balanced life is to live each moment in the right spiritual frame of mind.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.