Mind Quotes - Page 316

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.

It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.