Mind Quotes

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
Edmund burke,
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman
William shakespeare - it is meant that noble minds keep ever with their...
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
Jean De la Fontaine
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Tom Robbins
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
Author Unknown
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F. Gilde
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Bhagavad gita - governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on...
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurbe
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles, Antigone
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas H. Huxley
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.
Emad Hasan
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Herman Hesse
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
Michel de Montaigne
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
Walt Disney
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison, Biography
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Eric Hoffe
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.
Kelly Le Brock
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Seneca
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.
Mariah Carey
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
James Waddell Alexander, II
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson