Mind Quotes - Page 96

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

Get them while they're young and bend their minds.

The best way to know how Virender Sehwag's mind works is to sit next to him in the players' balcony when India are batting. Every few minutes he will clutch his head and yell, 'Chauka gaya' or 'Chhakka gaya'.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.