Mind Is Quotes

#1. I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

Julia Glass

#2. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

Walter Raleigh

#3. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

David W. Orr

#4. My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#5. The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

Donald Barthelme

#6. All you can be is you. Your true self shines with more beauty than your mind can ever know.

Sasha Martin

#7. Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.

Tavi Gevinson

#8. To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

Eden Sher

#11. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Helen Keller

#12. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward De Bono

#13. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.

Anthony De Mello

#14. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.

Gayle Forman

#15. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.

M.E. Dahkid

#16. The area dividing the brain and the soul
Is affected in many ways by experience
Some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
Some lose both and become:
accepted.

Charles Bukowski

#17. I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.

Cora Reilly

#19. The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Napoleon Hill

#20. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

John O'Hara

#21. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Noah Webster

#22. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#23. We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.

Mark Victor Hansen

#25. We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

Marianne Williamson

#26. The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?

Abhijit Naskar

#27. Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

Joseph Campbell

#28. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe

#29. The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

Rajneesh

#30. Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?

El-P

#31. Please keep in mind that no matter how strong, fast or coordinated you are, there is always someone stronger, faster and more coordinated.

Helio Gracie

#32. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#33. Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Idries Shah

#35. To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, to arrive at that place where you can alter your consciousness.

Scott Jurek

#36. Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.

Marcus Thomas

#37. Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Henry Rollins

#38. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.

Steve Hagen

#39. The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

Bruce Lee

#40. It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest clarity of mind - not an innocent heart, but that which is much rarer: an intransigent mind - as one's only possession and key.

Ayn Rand

#41. No matter whether your life is pleasant or good; whether you are having big challenges or no challenges, your state of your mind has everything to do with how you will relate to your experiences.

Louise Hay

#42. Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#43. True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.

Ameen Rihani

#44. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.

Victor L. Wooten

#45. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

Laura Busche

#46. I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.

Jack Kerouac

#47. The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Madame De Stael

#48. Energy is a state of mind. Tell yourself you're tired and you will be. Tell yourself you feel great and you will

Chalene Johnson

#49. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#50. I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind.

Ciaran Carson

#51. No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Jonathan Harnisch

#52. The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#53. Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

Thomas Nagel

#55. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.

Lance Henriksen

#56. The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Arnold Schoenberg

#57. For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#58. The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

Richard Cecil

#59. For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

Joseph Conrad

#60. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. It's not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

Seanan McGuire

#62. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

Eminem

#63. My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

David Bohm

#64. William Faulkner said, "The only story worth telling is that of the human mind in conflict with itself".

Miles Skedsvold

#65. I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.

Stephan Pastis

#66. Always keep in mind that the strongest factor of your Feng Shui is you.

Stefan Emunds

#67. Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love

Galway Kinnell

#68. My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

Carolyn Warner

#69. To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

Kelsang Gyatso

#70. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.

John Cage

#71. Mind has a temptation to divide. Once you divide, mind is at ease. If you don't divide, if you say, "I'm not going to to say anything. I'm not going to judge," mind feels as if it is on its deathbed.

Osho

#72. If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#74. There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

George Santayana

#75. Don't see the mind for more than it is, but don't misread it for all that it can be.

Jim Rohn

#76. It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

Caleb Cushing

#77. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.

Lao-Tzu

#78. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini

#79. I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.

Richard Salter Storrs

#80. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Israelmore Ayivor

#81. Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Jonah Lehrer

#82. There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad.

Gabriel Chevallier

#83. Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

Oleg Cassini

#84. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#85. The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.

Anne Frank

#86. How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

Thomas Sowell

#87. When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Dallas Willard

#88. Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

Terry Tempest Williams

#89. Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

Frederick Lenz

#90. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#91. How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God - ...

Brigham Young

#92. I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.

John Bytheway

#93. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

William Cowper

#94. A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.

Toni Sorenson

#95. There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.

William James

#96. The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#97. Psychoneuroimmunology is concerned specifically with the impact of mental attitudes on the body's resistance to disease, especially exploring the links among and between the mind, the brain and the immune system.

Karol K. Truman

#98. Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises.

Rajneesh

#99. The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

George Bernard Shaw

#100. The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

Eckhart Tolle