Top 100 Quotes About Changing The Mind
#1. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
#2. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
A.P. Herbert
#3. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change
Renae A. Sauter
#4. It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.
David Livingstone
#5. Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.
Marianne Williamson
#6. A glance toward her digital clock showed the numbers twitching and randomly changing on their own, as though her clock couldn't make up its mind on what time it wanted to be.
Kelly Creagh
#7. By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist
Daisaku Ikeda
#8. If you want to test how powerful your mind is, simply start thinking positively and see the results for yourself.
Maddy Malhotra
#9. Sure, the outcome was favourable, but what was the cost? Wasn't changing the way she felt about something not far from taking away her free will altogether?
Cassandra Page
#10. Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?
Tim Ferriss
#11. I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#12. Death of the mind. Nothing is more illuminating than to follow with M. Foucault the many threads which are woven in this complex book, whether it speaks of changing symptoms, commitment procedures, or treatment. For example: he sees a definite connection
Anonymous
#13. Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#14. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein
#15. New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
Charles Dickens
#16. The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
David Thewlis
#17. Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
Susan Jeffers
#18. As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.
Anna Paquin
#20. Even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers'? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?
David Sedaris
#21. It's funny how happiness can elude you for so long, and then you find out it's as easy as changing your mind."
---From "Hearts Reunited" (book 2 of the Law of Attraction trilogy) by Jeane Watier
Jeane Watier
#22. If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?
Sharon Salzberg
#23. A mind that is interested in changing ... is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.
John Cage
#24. Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
#25. One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.
John McAfee
#26. You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
Taylor Swift
#27. I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.
Leigh-Allyn Baker
#28. IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind - changing, changing, changing.
Pema Chodron
#29. You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
Charles Stross
#30. Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.
Kendrick Lamar
#31. Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.
Timothy Keller
#32. Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.
Graca Machel
#33. I threw away over 1,200 finished pages of my last memoir and broke the delete key on my keyboard changing my mind. If I had any balls at all, I'd make a brooch out of it.
Mary Karr
#34. I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by single handedly changing the game from the style played in my day. In my mind there can be no greater legacy.
Jean Beliveau
#35. The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.
John Assaraf
#36. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind & my eyes, refusing to be stamped & stereotyped. The thing is to free ones self; to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. (Diary 4: 187)
Thomas C. Caramagno
#37. Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#38. When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.
Frederick Lenz
#39. How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
Thomas Merton
#40. In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#41. An uncertain and doubting mind leads to fresh world visions and the possibility of new and ever-changing realities.
Michael Shermer
#42. Vivienne Westwood, The Sex Pistols, Seven Stars, coffee with milk and strawberry cake. And Ren flowers.
Nana's favorite things never change.
It was so cool for someone like me who keeps on changing their mind.
Ai Yazawa
#43. The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.
Seth
#44. The moon is the lighthouse of love, and as changing as a woman's mind.
Debasish Mridha
#45. I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .
R.S. Thomas
#46. If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's really just a matter of changing our mind about how we're going to process the events in our lives.
Wayne Dyer
#47. We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.
Willis Harman
#49. A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
Dalai Lama
#50. I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
Barbara Walters
#51. The mind map will change your life.
Tony Buzan
#52. Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.
Eckhart Tolle
#53. Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
Marcus Aurelius
#54. Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
Paul Auster
#55. You live in your body, but your ever-changing body is not who you are. You live through situations, but they come and go and are not who you are. You have thoughts, but the thousands of thoughts that pass through your mind are not who you are. Remaining
Mary Nurriestearns
#56. Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
Marcus Aurelius
#57. The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
Mark Twain
#58. That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby
#59. Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett
Daniel Kahneman
#60. The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.
Erin Willett
#62. There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.
Piper Perabo
#63. John Kenneth Galbraith said: Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#64. Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.
Tyrese Gibson
#65. Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face. The pursuit of it is why we do basically everything that we do, and yet, none of that effort is necessary: it's the simplest choice of changing our state of mind.
Brianna Wiest
#66. I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.
Mel Gibson
#67. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
#68. To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.
Marina Abramovic
#69. People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.
Leo Tolstoy
#70. Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#71. Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvation, and God.
Curtis Hutson
#72. The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.
Merlin Donald
#74. The process of mind is mechanical, and the data of the thoughts and imagination can be changed, by changing the experiences and impressions of life.
Roshan Sharma
#75. The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#76. I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
D.H. Lawrence
#77. I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"
Michael J. Fox
#78. With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.
Julie Warner
#79. Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#80. The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Peace is an eternal journey we begin in the mind by changing our thoughts so that we can fill the world with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#82. I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
Virginia Woolf
#83. You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don't really believe it would ever happen, because it's something that happens to someone else, not to you.
Tonya Hurley
#84. To be interested in the changing seasons is ... a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
#85. There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.
Cliff Martinez
#86. The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
Marina Abramovic
#87. The mind has no archetype. It is an ever-changing ever-evolving paradigm.
Debasish Mridha
#88. A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it's finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it
Pablo Picasso
#89. To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.
Madonna Ciccone
#90. I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother - a process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the one thing that matters. That makes everything else matter. That makes everything worthwhile.
Lisa Wingate
#91. Changing One's Mind...Can Help Change Humanity!
Timothy Pina
#92. You are the owner and controller of the most powerful engine with the potential to win all wars of life - it is your ever changing mind.
Debasish Mridha
#93. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
#94. It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#95. What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
Lee Iacocca
#96. I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Keanu Reeves
#98. It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Edward De Bono
#99. There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance.
Elizabeth's changing relationship with Darcy on first visit to Pemberley, Chapter 43.
Jane Austen
#100. Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.
Johnny Hunt
