Mind Quotes - Page 465

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.

Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.

I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, that’s not surprising.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Mind you, I'm going into the bedroom now to talk things over with Heavenly Father

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

You make the choice for change more easily and readily each time as your conscious mind begins to reprogram your subconscious mind with a new habit, and the decision is reinforced by that positive change.

If you knew that you were the owner of a million-dollar mind, would you treat your mind with more respect and appreciation? Would you put less poison in a million-dollar mind? Pay attention to what poisons you may be feeding your mind with & how now keeping your mind clear and healthy could make you more effective.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.