Mind Quotes - Page 168

So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

Meditation is that exercise of the mind, whereby it recalls a known truth, as some kinds of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon, until all the nutritious parts are extracted, and fitted for the purposes of life.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

Fear is the mind-killer.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

I wish i could change my mind as easily as I change socks But then I don't change socks so easily