Mind Quotes - Page 130

When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!

The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind.

Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.

When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.