Mind Quotes - Page 218

A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.

When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. Sometimes it will break. At other times, it will simply die off. Then, there are those times when for no reason, it will simply fall apart. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let it go.

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

Even if you disagree w/me-I HAVE TO STAND,like you FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN.WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.