Mind Quotes - Page 474

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

I feel like women's minds never stop.

If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they are there, but they are not in the Lord's mind because He made the whole thing, so there is a way, if we are smart enough, to understand them so that we will not have any contradictions.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.

A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people who do not understand mathematics? If mathematics invokes only the rules of logic, such as are accepted by all normal minds...how does it come about that so many persons are here refractory?

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well.

The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.

Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe.

An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.