Mind Dwelling Quotes

#1. A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Thomas Aquinas

#2. I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

Randy Houser

#3. The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...

Harriet Martineau

#4. He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

James Joyce

#5. Hope is the fuel within all human souls.
Eliminate hope - nothing moves, nothing grows.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

Mary Shelley

#7. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

Will Self

#10. Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place.

T. B. Joshua

#11. This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

Michael Jackson

#12. Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#13. The time had come to bring his apprentice deeper into the Sith mysteries he had been investigating for most of his life; to introduce him to the miracles he was performing on Aborah.

James Luceno

#14. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.

Lao-Tzu

#15. The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

A.J. Darkholme

#16. Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#17. Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.

Ernest Holmes

#19. Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

Deepak Chopra

#20. Do not think that you first have to look at the total plan and progress of the world, if you are to know what actions will now make sense, and where they will lead!

Oswald Bayer

#21. I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite ... bonding with him, in a weird way.

Teddy Thompson

#22. Stop making me fall in love with you, Cap, we both know it can't go anywhere.

James S.A. Corey

#23. Oh, to have "the word of Christ" always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!

Charles Spurgeon

#24. The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#25. He didn't save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.

Amy Engel

#26. Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.

Prentice Mulford

#27. And I have this, for now. I just wish I could figure out how to keep my fucking mind from going all over the place - dwelling on all the loss and pain and everything I'VE DONE - then jumping off into the future to how impossible it all seems.

Nic Sheff

#28. Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

Wallace Stevens

#29. The only way you can own this moment is to evict the victim mentality from the dwelling of your mind.

Steve Maraboli

#30. I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man ...

William Wordsworth

#31. You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration ... just letting them drift gently past.

Agatha Christie

#32. This is it, Beck. This is the hardest part of loving someone: not being with them when you want to be. It's so bad you can taste it.

Debra Anastasia

#33. In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Henri Nouwen