One S Mind Quotes

#1. Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.

Prerak Trivedi

#2. Gratitude exclaims ... 'How good of God to give me this.' Adoration says, 'What must be the quality of that Being whose far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!' One's mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun.

C.S. Lewis

#3. On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

#4. The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works - also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

George S. Clason

#5. [Ed Murrow] admitted he was having trouble coming to grips with the idea of peace: "Trying to realize what has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past. The war that was seems more real than the peace that has come.

Lynne Olson

#6. If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Robert Smithson

#8. It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things - the thought of God comes into one's mind.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. Active acceptance of God's will: to question with one's mind, to understand with one's intelligence, and to submit with one's heart.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.

Martha Grimes

#11. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.

Moira Katson

#12. If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe.

Barbara Pym

#13. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

#14. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#15. After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Mark Twain

#16. To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

Joseph Joubert

#17. An unsolved problem bothers one's mind, just as a small stone in the shoe,until an idea for solving the problem comes to mind.

Eraldo Banovac

#18. Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

A.J. Cronin

#19. Nothing does harm if one's mind is at peace.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

Harper Lee

#21. For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed ... it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

Edward Feser

#22. He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.

Ayn Rand

#23. To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Ayn Rand

#24. Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him ... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there.

Hudson Taylor

#25. Love. Infinite, unwavering love, love that completely envelopes one's mind and soul. That is the love that can mold one's mind. Love is final and most precious gift of life, if you find it never let it go.

Markus Peterson

#26. An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

Richard Briers

#27. The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Margaret Mead

#28. When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

Ayn Rand

#29. I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

Garry Shandling

#30. To my mind the whole push and thrust and development of the world is towards the more complex, the flexible, the open-minded, the ability to entertain many ideas, sometimes contradictory ones, in one's mind at the same time.

Doris Lessing

#31. He takes up too much room, on the divan and in one's mind. It is simply impossible for me, in his presence, think of anything but him.

Alice Munro

#32. It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.

Kristen Britain

#33. To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

#34. Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?

Karen Witemeyer

#35. Creativity ... involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

Oliver Sacks

#36. There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Marcel Proust

#37. The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.

John Dewey

#38. Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one's mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.

Algis Valiunas

#39. Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Samuel Johnson

#40. I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

George Eliot

#41. My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung ... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

Douglas Portway

#42. To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Anais Nin

#43. Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.

Melina Marchetta

#44. Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

Bodhidharma

#45. Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

Ted Solotaroff

#46. One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

A. C. Benson

#47. When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.

S.R. Ford

#48. Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All those little doses of emotion.

Chuck Palahniuk

#49. To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

Masahisa Goi

#50. In the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

Rebecca West

#51. When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes.

Lord Krishna

#52. Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

Chuck Palahniuk

#53. The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel

#54. Changing One's Mind...Can Help Change Humanity!

Timothy Pina

#55. Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Gene Fowler

#56. What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind ...

Dan Quayle

#57. Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

Daniel Okrent

#58. Love is taking care of oneself by freeing one's mind of worries and conducting one self with propriety.

Master Cheng Yen

#59. If one's mind becomes conflict-free, that is 'moksha'; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

#60. The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

Woodrow Wilson

#61. I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Geraldine Jewsbury

#62. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

Matthew Arnold

#63. One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these opportunities come to nothing. Once in a very great while one
or two
do come to something.

Robin McKinley

#64. One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

Takenaka Shigekata

#65. You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.

George W. Bush

#66. It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

Katherine Mansfield

#67. ...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#68. Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.

Gregory B. Sadler

#69. She knew right then no one's mind would change. They were going back to Mars.

Andy Weir

#70. Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

Ramana Maharshi

#71. One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

C.S. Lewis

#72. To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#73. There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:

George Orwell

#74. Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#75. Getting lost in a good book affords the surest means of improving one's mind as well as fueling one's imagination with a sense of adventure. All the better if said book should happen to be of a romantic bent.

P.O. Dixon

#76. Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

Ibn Khaldun

#77. There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

Cornel West

#78. To have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Soren Kierkegaard

#79. As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to be released at last from the dreary frenzy of time. Is that what it feels to be naked? All one's clothes are gone, yet one's mind is overladen with finery.

Muriel Barbery

#80. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Pierre Charron

#81. What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Dan Quayle

#82. All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind - it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement

Elizabeth Gaskell

#83. Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

Billy Graham

#84. I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

Nelson Mandela

#85. The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

Guy Davenport

#86. One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

Glenn Gould

#87. Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Ayn Rand

#88. God's covenant of grace in Scripture is one of those things that are too big to be easily seen, particularly when one's mind is programmed to look at something smaller.

J.I. Packer

#89. In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Orson Scott Card

#90. One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

Ella Maillart

#91. I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

Ivan Turgenev

#92. To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

Dogen

#93. The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.

Dave Smalley

#94. One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Michael Cunningham

#95. Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.

Tim McCarthy

#96. One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Robert Collier

#97. He observed confusion and chaos, which I call living by one's emotions instead of one's mind.

Anais Nin

#98. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#99. Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

John Cage

#100. When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

Adriano Bulla