Mind Quotes - Page 105

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.