Mind Quotes

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

It gets crazy in my mind sometimes but the reason why I like to express so much positivity on my Twitter is because I think we all are battling evil thoughts. I think it's important to not ignore them but to try to understand where they are coming from and get through them instead of suppressing them.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I don't digest things with my mind.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.