Mind Quotes - Page 315

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts - and then we send them out into the world. At some moment, perhaps the moment we click the shutter, they are being released. From that moment on, they don't really belong to us anymore.

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.