Mind Quotes - Page 169

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.

It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.