Mind Quotes - Page 231

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

Yoga is mind wave quieting.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.

I think its good to stimulate your mind.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.