Mind Disturbed Quotes

#1. Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.

John Cage

#2. For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Edwin Way Teale

#3. The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder at and admire beauty, without being in the least danger of having his peace of mind disturbed by love.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#4. Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.

Andrew Carnegie

#5. Surgery can help to remove a damaged organ but only meditation and quiet time can remove emotions like anger and fear to calm and soothe a disturbed mind

Teresa Spelman

#6. My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

Anna Kavan

#7. Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

Anthony De Mello

#8. Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

D.T. Suzuki

#9. The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Marina Abramovic

#10. Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

Dalai Lama

#11. No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and only death would break it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

John Shirley

#13. A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

Dalai Lama

#14. Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.

Courtney Summers

#15. Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means 'rock'), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it." Matthew 16:18

Priscilla Doremus

#16. The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#17. George Martin looks like Santa Claus, but he's got a wonderfully disturbed mind.

Sean Bean

#18. For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.

Olaf Stapledon

#19. In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.

Eva Longoria

#21. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

#22. A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.

Rick Warren

#24. Auditioning is the worst.

Rashida Jones

#25. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. revenge is an admission that we have been hurt. That cannot be a great mind which is disturbed by injury. He who has hurt you must be either stronger or weaker than yourself. If he be weaker, spare him: if he be stronger, spare yourself.

Seneca.

#27. Data really powers everything that we do.

Jeff Weiner

#28. My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father

Irvin D. Yalom

#29. If the body dies, life ends! If the body is disturbed, life is disturbed. If the mind is not sound, everything least sound well to the mind! Mind your body; mind your mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.

Glen Duncan

#31. My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

Studs Terkel

#32. I can't tell you the number of times I've been walking over an archaeological site. And you can't see anything on the ground, and pull back hundreds of miles in space, and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids.

Sarah Parcak

#33. As long as you cultivate stillness, you may enjoy peace, but whenever your mind is a little bit disturbed, deluded thoughts will set in again.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#34. I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in Forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind. I knew exactly what caused the difference, and it disturbed me.

Stephenie Meyer

#35. I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.

Sherri Shepherd

#36. My inspiration is coming more and more from the way I feel and the gratitude I feel. The older you get the more humility you have.

Louie Anderson

#37. All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

Charlotte Bronte