Mind Quotes - Page 203

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourself, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feelings.

Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind.

Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.