Mind Quotes - Page 260

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

We really believe that whatever we put our minds to, we can achieve.

For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Painful things do not come to us from outside, but arise from within our own mind. Circumstances or other people have no power to make us feel bad; the most they can do is trigger the potentials for painful feelings that already exist within our own mind.

Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.

Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.