Mind Quotes - Page 253

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!

I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.

Women and men are constructed differently, cosmically differently, never mind the physiognomy, but the cosmic memory we carry within us. The purposes we serve, the things that drive us, the things that are important to us are basically different.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.

Faith in a higher power helps us to control our mind and thoughts.

Purify the mind through selfless service.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the dominant culture, Christianity, itself absorbed a large number of elements from Greco-Roman Stoicism.