Mind Quotes - Page 456

Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?

The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.