Mind Quotes - Page 423

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't feel I can say otherwise. Those tweets have a specific sense of desperation to them, because I write them when I feel like I don't have anyone else to talk to - as if Twitter is the only thing that will accept my insanely inappropriate thoughts without judgement.

Nothing in the world excites the culture today so much as a question. A question seems very appropriate to whatever you have in mind. Allowing your work to remain questionable is a way of satisfying your cultural condition.

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

wan i say u ever there i didnt mean to stare but my mind was ever were i wanna know you!

I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.

I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don’t drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you’re walking around in.

My mind is lovely as a spruce, and I and those that love me make it mine.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

Music is one of the sharpest blades that we have to cut through the thick entangled web of the external mind and lead us back into the silent cave of our own Heart.

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.