Mind Quotes - Page 224

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

I would say there is a conversation happening between your body and mind all the time. Even when you're sleeping, your body is communicating the information to your mind. And so to me it feels like, why not harness that? If it's happening all the time, why not control the content of the conversation?

Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

When we change the input into our minds, we change the output into our lives.