Mind Quotes - Page 361

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is certain that in that very act he will be struck in his mind and senses by some more divine breath and will recognize that the books he reads have not been produced in a human way, but are words of God.

I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.

Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit.

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family of their former lord is extinguished; the other, that neither their laws nor their taxes are altered, so that in a very short time they will become entirely one body with the old principality.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.