Mind Quotes - Page 290

I see the US Open as glamorous. That's the word that comes to mind.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.