Mind Quotes - Page 212

To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.

When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.

How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.

Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.