Mind Quotes - Page 225

Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.

Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.

The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense.

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

In each mind resides a potential so potent. They make us think that we ain't got it.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.