Mind Quotes - Page 45

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and thats such a delicious feeling, but when its unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.