Mind Quotes - Page 196

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

Sex is so much more in the mind than in the body.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within.