Mind Quotes - Page 309

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something.” “What did you have in mind?” "A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?” “Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and assorted fruit toppings?

Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

My writing is a picture of the mind moving.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.