Mind Quotes - Page 186

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

We must move "out of our mind" and dwell in our consciousness.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in mind with grave consideration.

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]