Mind Quotes - Page 108

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

It is your minds that are moving.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Only relinquish all things into My hands: for I can work freely only as ye release Me by complete committal both of thyself and others. Even as was written of old: "Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in Him: and He shall bring it to pass". (Psalms 37:5) I will be thy sustaining strength; and My peace shall garrison thy mind. Only TRUST ME that all I do is done in love.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided the subject of mind and consciousness, leaving it to the realm of religion. Only with the founding of quantum science in the early part of the 20th century have we realized that the Cartesian Duality is wrong, that body, mind, physicality do interact and they're interrelated.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

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.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.