Quotes
Quotes about Mind
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Everything starts with yourselfâwith you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. -Chuang Tzu.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. -Unknown.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp! Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye! Over the table,--look out for the lamp! The rogue is growing a little old; Five years we've tramped through wind and weather, And slept out-doors when nights were cold, And ate and drank and starved together.
To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler 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. To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to.
If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer and his dream.
