Mind Quotes - Page 467

When I started going to church, my first memories are of the minister getting up and accusing us of being full of sin, though he didn't say why; then they would pass the collection plate, and I got it in my mind that this had to do with purification of the soul, that we were being invited to buy expiation from our sins. So I gave it all up. It was too nonsensical.

We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?