Mind Quotes - Page 160

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.