Mind Quotes - Page 365

Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.