Agitated Mind Quotes

#1. Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

Wallace D. Wattles

#2. There were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children were acting as one, but every child was acting as forty.

Charles Dickens

#3. I will speak that I may find relief"; for there is a redemptive quality for an agitated mind in the spoken word, and a tormented soul finds peace in confessing.

Joseph B. Soloveitchik

#4. My hand may slip from lack of practice, but I do not believe my clumsy writing derives from an agitated mind.

Soseki Natsume

#5. Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

Bil Keane

#6. Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my
mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

Eknath Easwaran

#9. Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

Isocrates

#10. If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!

H.W.L. Poonja

#11. Numbers are free creations of the human mind; they serve as a means of apprehending more easily and more sharply the difference of things.

Richard Dedekind

#12. Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. Creff was visibly agitated by the stranger's appearance at our door. Memory calls to mind the anxious wringing of his hands, resembling two furless pink badgers wrestling for each other's throats ...

K.W. Jeter

#15. It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

Thomas L. Smith

#16. I was not born to be saved.

Rosamund Hodge

#17. There is a famous saying: "If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear".

Sogyal Rinpoche

#18. Monkey mind is actually a Buddhist term that refers to a mind that is restless, agitated, confused, or that is hard to control.

George Mumford