Mind Quotes - Page 118

Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin, that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

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

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.

Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind