Mind Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 20, 2024
‘Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.’ – Buddha
‘Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.’ – Joseph Addison
‘Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.’ – Arnold Bennett
‘I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.’ – Vincent Van Gogh
‘Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.’ – Plato
‘Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.’ – Mark Twain
‘To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.’ – Lao Tzu
‘Learning never exhausts the mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.’ – Laurence Sterne
‘Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.’ – Swami Sivananda
‘Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.’ – Henry Ford
‘Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!’ – Bob Marley
‘You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.’ – Aristotle
‘You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald
‘You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.’ – Marcus Aurelius
‘I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.’ – Rosa Parks
‘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.’ – Khalil Gibran
‘To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.’ – Plutarch
‘Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.’ – John Wooden
‘Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.’ – Jim Morrison
‘The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.’ – St. Jerome
‘Fortune favors the prepared mind.’ – Louis Pasteur
‘It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.’ – Rose Kennedy
‘If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?’ – Laurence J. Peter
‘Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.’ – Abraham Lincoln
‘Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.’ – Malcolm Forbes
‘And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.’ – Ayrton Senna
‘It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.’ – Stephen Curry
‘Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.’ – Henry James
‘Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.’ – Richard M. DeVos
‘The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte
‘I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo
‘I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.’ – Simone Biles
‘Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It’s a state of mind.’ – Amisha Patel
‘Champions are not the ones who always win races – champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. ‘Champion’ is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.’ – Simon Sinek
‘The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.’ – Neil Gaiman
‘A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.’ – David Goggins
‘Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.’ – Baruch Spinoza
‘Let your mind alone, and see what happens.’ – Virgil Thomson
‘Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.’ – David Hume
‘We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.’ – Taylor Swift
‘Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.’ – Leah LaBelle
‘For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.’ – John Steinbeck
‘The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.’ – Sylvia Browne
‘Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.’ – Ozzy Osbourne
‘You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.’ – Lil Durk
‘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.’ – Mary Kay Ash
‘True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.’ – Kevin Gates
‘A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore
‘She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.’ – Toni Morrison
‘Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.’ – Dalai Lama
‘The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.’ – Winston Churchill
‘You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.’ – Albert Einstein
‘I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.’ – Jane Goodall
‘The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger
‘Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.’ – Earl Nightingale
‘I’m not a follower. I’m a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.’ – Tyler, The Creator
‘I feel as though, if you’re able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.’ – Juice Wrld
‘Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.’ – Bernard Baruch
‘Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.’ – Ralph Marston
‘Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.’ – Joyce Brothers
‘The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.’ – Carl Jung
‘Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.’ – Robert A. Heinlein
‘There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.’ – Morihei Ueshiba
‘Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach
‘Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru
‘True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.’ – Wilhelm von Humboldt
‘There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.’ – Walt Disney
‘Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.’ – Samuel Ullman
‘Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.’ – Melody Beattie
‘For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.’ – Britney Spears
‘Wellness is the compete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.’ – Greg Anderson
‘What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.’ – Dan Quayle
‘I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.’ – Norman Vincent Peale
‘Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.’ – William S. Burroughs
‘Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.’ – Milind Soman
‘Athletics is not so much about the legs. It’s about the heart and mind.’ – Eliud Kipchoge
‘I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.’ – Denzel Washington
‘Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.’ – Dean Koontz
‘In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.’ – Tupac Shakur
‘Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.’ – J. Donald Walters
‘My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.’ – Samuel Johnson
‘I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.’ – Edgar Allan Poe
‘No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.’ – Louise L. Hay
‘It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.’ – Rene Descartes
‘Curiosity is the lust of the mind.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti
‘The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.’ – Steven Biko
‘I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.’ – Harriet Tubman
‘A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.’ – Benjamin Franklin
‘The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.’ – Brian Tracy
‘One does not play the piano with one’s fingers: one plays the piano with one’s mind.’ – Glenn Gould
‘There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.’ – William Shakespeare
‘A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.’ – Charlotte Bronte
‘Music is the medicine of the mind.’ – John A. Logan
‘Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.’ – Dada Vaswani
‘You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?’ – John Lennon
‘The possession of anything begins in the mind.’ – Bruce Lee
‘Comebacks are not at all easy. After a major surgery, the difficult part is to conquer the inner demons. It’s all in the mind. Only an individual can overcome his fears.’ – Rohit Sharma
‘There’s nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.’ – Jenny Nimmo
‘I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.’ – Groucho Marx
‘Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.’ – B. R. Ambedkar
‘The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.’ – Maya Angelou
‘You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.’ – Timothy Leary
‘Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes.’ – Maggie Kuhn
‘A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.’ – Ellen G. White
‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.’ – Calvin Coolidge
‘The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.’ – Terry Pratchett
‘Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.’ – Plautus
‘There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.’ – Sophia Loren
‘When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.” – William Wallace
‘Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.’ – Martha Beck
‘Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.’ – Mike Todd
‘Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
‘A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.’ – Francis Bacon
‘Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.’ – George Fox
‘I don’t mind you thinking I’m stupid, but don’t talk to me like I’m stupid.’ – Harlan Ellison
‘What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.’ – Harry Houdini
‘When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.’ – George Harrison
‘The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.’ – William Blake
‘Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.’ – Gillian Anderson
‘Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.’ – Charlie Chaplin
‘Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.’ – Bodhidharma
‘Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.’ – SZA
‘No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.’ – Edmund Burke
‘Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.’ – Billy Graham
‘Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.’ – Paavo Nurmi
‘Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.’ – Lou Holtz
‘We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.’ – Deb Haaland
‘Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.’ – Radhanath Swami
‘What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.’ – Henri Matisse
‘Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay… calm.’ – Yves Behar
‘True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.’ – Isabella Rossellini
‘Is there no way out of the mind?’ – Sylvia Plath
‘Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.’ – Horace
‘You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.’ – George Michael
‘I’m not a fighter, but in my mind I’m fighting every day. ‘What’s new? What am I doing?’ I’m fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren’t samurai, but my soul is.’ – Masaharu Morimoto
‘How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.’ – David Joseph Schwartz
‘Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer
‘It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.’ – Orison Swett Marden
‘If you never change your mind, why have one? – Edward de Bono’ – Edward de Bono
‘Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.’ – Henry Winkler
‘It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.’ – James Baldwin
‘The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.’ – James Truslow Adams
‘The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.’ – Dorothea Dix
‘Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.’ – Satchel Paige
‘Never mind your happiness; do your duty.’ – Peter Drucker
‘True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.’ – William Penn
‘Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.’ – Henry David Thoreau
‘I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.’ – Elon Musk
‘True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.’ – Akhenaton
‘Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll
‘The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.’ – Sigmund Freud
‘Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.’ – Tom Hanks
‘Your body hears everything your mind says.’ – Naomi Judd
‘Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.’ – Meg Rosoff
‘Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.’ – Paul Auster
‘Friendship is one mind in two bodies.’ – Mencius
‘Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.’ – Hypatia
‘Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.’ – Lionel Hampton
‘It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.’ – Kristin Armstrong
‘In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.’ – Michio Kaku
‘Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.’ – Marcel Proust
‘All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.’ – Max Planck
‘I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.’ – Elton John
‘Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?’ – Galileo Galilei
‘People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.’ – Alexander Pope
‘My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.’ – Arthur Conan Doyle
‘The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.’ – John Milton
‘The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.’ – Benjamin Jowett
‘If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.’ – Ronnie Lott
‘Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.’ – Daphne du Maurier
‘Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.’ – Zhuangzi
‘The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.’ – Paracelsus
‘The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.’ – Albert Schweitzer
‘Passion and strife bow down the mind.’ – Virgil
‘Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.’ – Chanakya
‘When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.’ – S. E. Hinton
‘Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.’ – James Naismith
‘Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.’ – Thomas Fuller
‘You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.’ – Emmet Fox
‘I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.’ – Steven Wright
‘Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.’ – Grenville Kleiser
‘It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.’ – Saint Ignatius
‘The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.’ – E. M. Forster
‘The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.’ – Albert Camus
‘Going to the gym is great for your body, but it’s also great for your mind.’ – Rory McIlroy
‘The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.’ – Henry Kissinger
‘There’s no doubt in my mind that I wouldn’t be in the position that I am if I didn’t have my ‘One Tree Hill’ fans. They’re the most dedicated, devoted fans. They’re behind you no matter what. If one person says one bad thing about me on Twitter, they’re fighting back!’ – Jana Kramer
‘I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.’ – Mohammad bin Salman
‘Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft
‘The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.’ – A. A. Milne
‘In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.’ – Shunryu Suzuki
‘A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.’ – John Locke
‘Football is a game you play with your mind.’ – Johan Cruyff
‘All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.’ – Robert Collier
‘A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.’ – Oliver Herford
‘What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.’ – Alexander Graham Bell
‘Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.’ – Danica McKellar
‘I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don’t mind watching me on screen… I just don’t ever want to jeopardize that.’ – Ian Somerhalder
‘Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith
‘Travelling expands the mind rarely.’ – Hans Christian Andersen
‘I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.’ – Virat Kohli
‘For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.’ – Edwin Way Teale
‘The mind is the effect, not the cause.’ – Daniel Dennett
‘I’m looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.’ – Justin Bieber
”The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.” – C. S. Lewis
‘A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.’ – Thomas Carlyle
‘Have a strong mind and a soft heart.’ – Anthony J. D’Angelo
‘Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.’ – Karl Marx
‘Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.’ – Ramana Maharshi
‘The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
‘I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.’ – Margaret Thatcher
‘I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.’ – Ralph Ellison
‘Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.’ – Bethany Hamilton
‘It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.’ – Hesiod
‘The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.’ – Lee Kuan Yew
‘Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.’ – Indra Devi
‘Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.’ – Michael Chiesa
‘What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.’ – Wendell Phillips
‘Luxury is a state of mind.’ – L’Wren Scott
‘Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.’ – Kelsang Gyatso
‘The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body… is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
‘An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can’t easily recognize that they are the same.’ – Daniel Kahneman
‘The wisest mind has something yet to learn.’ – George Santayana
‘Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.’ – Martha Stewart
‘Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.’ – Arnold Palmer
‘Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.’ – Walter Scott
‘A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.’ – Abhishek Bachchan
‘Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.’ – Ovid
‘We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.’ – Charles Spurgeon
‘An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.’ – Debbie Ford
‘I don’t mind being called a weirdo.’ – Nicki Minaj
‘Everything changes as you get older – your mind, your body, the way you view the world.’ – Antonio Banderas
‘There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky
‘It is exactly in tough times when we discover our full potential, it allows our mind and body to push ourselves beyond our limits.’ – Leonardo Bonucci
‘The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.’ – Aldous Huxley
‘In Asian languages, the word for ‘mind’ and the word for ‘heart’ are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn
‘To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.’ – Eminem
‘Cleanliness is important, and more than that is the physical fitness to attain healthy body and mind.’ – Sandeep Singh
‘Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.’ – Bob Cousy
‘Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.’ – Colin Powell
‘Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.’ – William Gibson
‘Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.’ – Vaclav Havel
‘I don’t mind standing up for what I believe in.’ – Jason Momoa
‘I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.’ – Billie Eilish
‘I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.’ – Yayoi Kusama
‘To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.’ – Theophile Gautier
‘Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.’ – Alan Kay
‘A teacher should have a creative mind.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it’s by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor. We need to find a way to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have.’ – Suleika Jaouad
‘Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.’ – Qandeel Baloch
‘Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.’ – Gerald Jampolsky
‘A mind cannot be independent of culture.’ – Lev Vygotsky
‘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.’ – Johannes Kepler
‘Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.’ – Aeschylus
‘Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.’ – Gottfried Leibniz
‘When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy
‘Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche
‘So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.’ – Christopher McCandless
‘A full mind is an empty bat.’ – Branch Rickey
‘A lot of fighters have skills, they have talent. The one thing that you can’t train is a strong mind.’ – Keith Thurman
‘If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.’ – Fred Hampton
‘Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.’ – Gabriela Mistral
‘Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
‘Begin with the end in mind.’ – Stephen Covey
‘Religion is just mind control.’ – George Carlin
‘There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.’ – Archibald MacLeish
‘A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.’ – Suze Orman
‘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.’ – Helen Keller
‘Knowledge is the life of the mind.’ – Abu Bakr
‘I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.’ – Robert Fulghum
‘In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.’ – Will Smith
‘Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.’ – Jennifer Lopez
‘Keep in mind, when two enemies are talking, they’re not fighting, they’re talking. They might be yelling and screaming, but at least they’re talking. It’s when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence.’ – Daryl Davis
‘I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.’ – Michael Phelps
‘You gotta have life your way. If you ain’t losing your mind, you ain’t partying right.’ – Young Jeezy
‘Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.’ – Mick Jagger
‘There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.’ – Gray Scott
‘The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I’m never afraid to speak truth to power.’ – Leymah Gbowee
‘The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.’ – Bobby Davro
‘A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.’ – Jane Austen
‘Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.’ – William Butler Yeats
‘Being a great baker and pastry chef requires the upmost open mind. I try every dessert that comes my way!’ – Christina Tosi
‘When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.’ – Swami Vivekananda
‘Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.’ – e. e. cummings
‘We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.’ – Buddha
‘One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.’ – A. C. Benson
‘I did some martial arts training for ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ since the character was an assassin.’ – Sam Rockwell
‘Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.’ – William E. Gladstone
‘Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don’t be scared of what if.’ – Ravi Shastri
‘Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.’ – Mary Baker Eddy
‘We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.’ – James E. Faust
‘To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.’ – Muhammad Yunus
‘We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don’t think that’s what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.’ – Tara Westover
‘The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.’ – Kendrick Lamar
‘A feeble body weakens the mind.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
‘Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.’ – Robert Browning
‘Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.’ – Bruce Wilkinson
‘Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.’ – Allen Ginsberg
”Expect nothing and hope for the best’ is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it’s the best advice I’ve had. If you keep an open mind and don’t expect too much, then you won’t be disappointed.’ – Michelle Dockery
‘We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.’ – Elbert Hubbard
‘It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.’ – Thomas Aquinas
‘Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.’ – Helena Rubinstein
‘Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.’ – Thomas J. Watson
‘A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.’ – Bill Shankly
‘The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.’ – Marlee Matlin
‘When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.’ – Christy Turlington
‘The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.’ – Edward Bond
‘When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder.’ – William Slim
‘Everything starts with yourself, with 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.’ – Tony Dorsett
‘After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I’m sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.’ – Becca Fitzpatrick
‘At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I’ve never emerged.’ – Patch Adams
‘Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.’ – Eubie Blake
‘The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.’ – Wilhelm Wundt
‘The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.’ – Diana Vreeland
‘A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.’ – Steve Carell
‘It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.’ – Anatole France
‘If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.’ – Jack Benny
‘Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.’ – V. E. Schwab
‘Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz
‘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.’ – Unknown
‘Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.’ – Pythagoras
‘Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.’ – Vladimir Nabokov
‘To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.’ – George Ade
‘Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.’ – Frederick Buechner
‘Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?’ – William Makepeace Thackeray
‘Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.’ – Patanjali
‘A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.’ – Eugene Ionesco
‘It is the mind that makes the body.’ – Sojourner Truth
‘Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.’ – Dave East
‘Oscar Wilde: ‘Do you mind if I smoke?’ Sarah Bernhardt: ‘I don’t care if you burn.” – Sarah Bernhardt
‘My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!’ – Anne Sullivan
‘If you have a positive frame of mind, you can manifest positive things in your life.’ – Alesha Dixon
‘Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership – it’s an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.’ – Richard Foster
‘I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.’ – Kevin DeYoung
‘For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.’ – Meir Kahane
‘Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.’ – Leo Burnett
‘Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.’ – George Washington Carver
‘Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.’ – Charlamagne tha God
‘Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘Music – it’s the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.’ – Emmanuel Jal
‘For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.’ – Frank Sinatra
‘The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.’ – Madame de Stael
‘The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.’ – Sophie Swetchine
‘I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.’ – Agnes Varda
‘An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.’ – Alanis Morissette
‘The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.’ – Benjamin Banneker
‘The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity.’ – Jay Shetty
‘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.’ – Ansel Adams
‘I trained to be a priest – started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.’ – Johnny Vegas
‘My words have always either attracted a strong mind or offended a weak one.’ – Sherlyn Chopra
‘Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.’ – Jim Valvano
‘The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.’ – Lucretius
‘I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.’ – Joan Didion
‘Everyone’s frightened. It’s how you deal with that fear. It’s very, very powerful. And what you’ve got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that’s a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.’ – Jimmy Iovine
‘It’s like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don’t mind doing interviews if they’re by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.’ – Toby Keith
‘Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.’ – Jim Rohn
‘Time is a mind construct. It’s not real.’ – Prince
‘You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.’ – Stacy London
‘The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become.’ – James Lane Allen
‘Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.’ – Sitting Bull
‘Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.’ – Philip Treacy
‘Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘A liberal to me is one who – and it suits some of the dictionary definitions – is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.’ – Walter Cronkite
‘Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh
‘The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.’ – Vera Wang
‘Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.’ – Edward Kennedy
‘Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.’ – Rupert Murdoch
‘Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.’ – Christopher Morley
‘I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.’ – Emily Bronte
‘Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.’ – Jonas Salk
‘I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.’ – Amy Poehler
‘My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn’t describe myself as that. Because I don’t have to. Because I’m not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.’ – Daniel Radcliffe
‘To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.’ – Thelma Schoonmaker
‘The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.’ – Andrew Carnegie
‘The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is. It’s that you can see the world as it isn’t.’ – Kathryn Schulz
‘The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.’ – David Hockney
‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’ – Aristotle
‘It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.’ – William Ellery Channing
‘It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.’ – Agnes Repplier
‘Bitcoin was created with security in mind. The Blockchain is Bitcoin’s public ledger that records every transaction in the Bitcoin economy.’ – Perianne Boring
‘Dreaming means ‘rehearsing’ what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.’ – Emmitt Smith
‘Simplicity is a state of mind.’ – Charles Wagner
‘One must know the so-called ‘lesson of a downpour.’ A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.’ – Yamamoto Tsunetomo
‘I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don’t know where the book is, and maybe I couldn’t read it if I found it.’ – Warren G. Harding
‘For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.’ – George Gissing
‘Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!’ – Carlos Santana
‘I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.’ – Emily Dickinson
‘It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.’ – Voltaire
‘The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.’ – Stella Adler
‘We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.’ – Susan L. Taylor
‘Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
‘Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.’ – Phil Jackson
‘If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for.’ – Antonio Brown
‘Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.’ – Giorgio Moroder
‘Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.’ – Douglas Southall Freeman
‘The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.’ – Daniel Webster
‘When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.’ – Jerry West
‘Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.’ – William Christopher Handy
‘Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth – in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world – have not any subsistence without a mind.’ – George Berkeley
‘A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
‘You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.’ – Sara Sampaio
‘Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.’ – Agatha Christie
‘Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.’ – Ezra Cornell
‘You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.’ – Richard Bach
‘When you see the ocean and the infinite, it empties your mind.’ – Ilaiyaraaja
‘I just have a really strong mind and I just believe in myself a lot.’ – The Kid Laroi
‘On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.’ – Satoru Iwata
‘Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.’ – Auguste Rodin
‘The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.’ – W. H. Auden
‘Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.’ – Ayn Rand
‘When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.’ – James A. Forbes
‘Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘You don’t have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.’ – L. Ron Hubbard
‘You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.’ – Dale Carnegie
‘When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.’ – Harry S Truman
‘The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.’ – James Allen
‘I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.’ – Robert Burns
‘The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.’ – M. Scott Peck
‘Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.’ – Bernard Law Montgomery
‘Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.’ – Henry Rollins
‘Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.’ – Mark Hunt
‘His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.’ – Emma Willard
‘When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.’ – Barack Obama
‘I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.’ – Frank Ocean
‘The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
‘I’m a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.’ – Natalie Portman
‘What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.’ – Mae Jemison
‘What do you hang on the walls of your mind?’ – Eve Arnold
‘Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.’ – Musiq Soulchild
‘My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.’ – Kenny Chesney
‘Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we’ve set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.’ – Phil Robertson
‘To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.’ – Prem Rawat
‘Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.’ – Giordano Bruno
‘I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.’ – Steve Allen
‘The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.’ – Eric Hoffer
‘A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.’ – Andy Weir
‘I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior’s Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
‘My mind’s my kingdom.’ – Francis Quarles
‘Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.’ – E. Joseph Cossman
‘It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.’ – Charles Fillmore
‘I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.’ – Iyanla Vanzant
‘I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.’ – Bob Dylan
‘In my mind, God made me to play football for a very long time.’ – Cooper Kupp
‘With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.’ – Grigor Dimitrov
‘Pain is the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful – love them. I love them to death!’ – Ram Dass
‘I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.’ – Christopher Nolan
‘I don’t mind being a symbol but I don’t want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I’ve seen what the pigeons do to them.’ – Tommy Douglas
‘Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.’ – Francis of Assisi
‘Well, when you’re relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There’s no such thing as time when you’re really relaxed. That’s why meditation works.’ – Shirley MacLaine
‘If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.’ – Sylvia Earle
‘Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.’ – Leonhard Euler
‘I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won’t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn’t going to love you all the time.’ – Mel Gibson
‘What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.’ – Thomas A. Edison
‘Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.’ – H. L. Mencken
‘The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.’ – Albert J. Nock
‘I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.’ – Richard P. Feynman
‘In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.’ – Charles Kettering
‘Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘I think it’s nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It’s a fair exchange.’ – Cherie Lunghi
‘Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.’ – Hugh Jackman
‘It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.’ – Joel Osteen
‘It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.’ – George Eliot
‘My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.’ – Michael Jordan
‘Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.’ – Koena Mitra
‘The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton
‘The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.’ – Douglas Adams
‘No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.’ – Muhammad Ali
‘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.’ – Eden Ahbez
‘Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.’ – David Icke
‘I don’t care whether people say, ”The Office’ is rubbish, ‘Extras’ is worse, ‘Flanimals’ is a waste of time. He’s not funny; he never has been. I hate him.’ I don’t mind that at all. In fact, not only do I expect it, I celebrate it, because I think the haters are really important.’ – Ricky Gervais
‘It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.’ – Bill Ayers
‘I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.’ – Will Rogers
‘I never look at other people’s work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.’ – Alexander McQueen
‘The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.’ – Malcolm de Chazal
‘I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.’ – David Bowie
‘The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition – cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila
‘The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.’ – John Keats
‘Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you’re good. So work anywhere you can. That’s why I’ve changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it’s kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They’re working.’ – John Carroll Lynch
‘Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.’ – Ziggy Marley
‘I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville
‘Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.’ – Mary Shelley
‘Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.’ – Maggie Smith
‘Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.’ – Pericles
‘Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.’ – William Cowper
‘Once I set my mind towards something, it’s going to happen. By hook or by crook.’ – Anya Taylor-Joy
‘I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.’ – Ernest Hemingway
‘Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.’ – Hank Green
‘The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.’ – Roy Conli
‘I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.’ – Andrew Young
‘Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.’ – Martin Farquhar Tupper
‘When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.’ – Alice Coltrane
‘Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.’ – William Westmoreland
‘You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.’ – Greg Boyle
‘My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby’s mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.’ – Melanie Klein
‘My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.’ – Fernando Botero
‘There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.’ – Ann Richards
‘There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.’ – Pat Riley
‘I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.’ – Henry Ossawa Tanner
‘The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.’ – The Weeknd
‘Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.’ – Bernie Siegel
‘Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.’ – Zayn Malik
‘I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.’ – Charles Darwin
‘Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.’ – Tony Campolo
‘I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.’ – Albert Einstein
‘The biology of mind bridges the sciences – concerned with the natural world – and the humanities – concerned with the meaning of human experience.’ – Eric Kandel
‘I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it.’ – Debbie Harry
‘As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!’ – Victoria Osteen
‘It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.’ – Benjamin E. Mays
‘Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.’ – Steven Pinker
‘The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.’ – Bertha von Suttner
‘Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.’ – Joyce Carol Oates
‘The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.’ – Dani Shapiro
‘The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.’ – Hunter S. Thompson
‘Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.’ – Catherine of Siena
‘Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.’ – Isaac Pitman
‘The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.’ – Michelangelo
‘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.’ – Hermann Hesse
‘I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.’ – Erma Bombeck
‘If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry… thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.’ – Philip Sidney
‘The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.’ – Henry Miller
‘We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.’ – Ben Carson
‘Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.’ – John Dewey
‘Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.’ – Liza Minnelli
‘Introspection, or ‘sitting in the silence,’ is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda
‘My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it’s a gift and a curse.’ – Sean Combs
‘Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.’ – Marcus Aurelius
‘Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.’ – Leonard Mlodinow
‘It’s not that conservatives don’t care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It’s a difference of the mind, not of the heart.’ – Tom Selleck
‘A lot of people don’t like bumper stickers. I don’t mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It’s like a little sign that says ‘Hey, let’s never hang out.” – Demetri Martin
‘Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe
‘A closed mind is a dying mind.’ – Edna Ferber
‘Usually when I’m making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn’t quite been in before.’ – Wes Anderson
‘Attention is what steers your perceptions; it’s what controls your reality. It’s the gateway to the mind.’ – Apollo Robbins
‘While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.’ – Maimonides
‘Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.’ – Alan Moore
‘I was into Jacques Cousteau as a kid and started scuba-diving around 14, which blew my mind. It was all colour, another world.’ – Stephen Hillenburg
‘The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.’ – Jonathan Edwards
‘No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.’ – Tom Watson
‘The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.’ – Taylor Swift
‘Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.’ – Michael Stuhlbarg
‘When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.’ – Sunil Chhetri
‘Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.’ – Ben Okri
‘If you put your mind to it, anything is possible.’ – Kimberly Guilfoyle
‘People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.’ – Moliere
‘Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.’ – Swami Sivananda
‘Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.’ – John Burroughs
‘Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.’ – Nikola Tesla
‘It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.’ – James Prescott Joule
‘Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.’ – Martha Nussbaum
‘I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.’ – W. Somerset Maugham
‘The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.’ – F. H. Bradley
‘Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today’s youth shall look upon you as a sage.’ – Maximillian Degenerez
‘I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don’t want to hurt anyone.’ – Arijit Singh
‘To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.’ – Buddha
‘When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.’ – Jose Mourinho
”Study’ was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.’ – Bhagat Singh
‘Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people’s mediocrities. That’s precisely what ‘trends’ are – a search for something ‘safe’ – and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.’ – George Lois
‘I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.’ – Pearl S. Buck
‘All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke
‘My favorite movies are ‘The Notebook,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,’ and ‘Wolf Children.” – Nayeon
‘I don’t take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don’t mind.’ – Paul McCartney
‘I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.’ – Carrie Fisher
‘I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.’ – Victor Borge
‘One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.’ – Athanasius
‘A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.’ – William Morris
‘In my mind, we live in Heaven, and we live in Hell.’ – Ronnie James Dio
‘I really think that I don’t mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It’s not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.’ – Abbas Kiarostami
‘Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!’ – Shweta Basu Prasad
‘Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.’ – Marilyn French
‘For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.’ – Gerald R. Ford
‘I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.’ – Saint Bernard
‘Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.’ – Keanu Reeves
‘If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.’ – Anne Frank
‘But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.’ – Lactantius
‘I wouldn’t mind the rat race – if the rats would lose once in a while.’ – Tom Wilson
‘I wouldn’t mind if I had to travel every single day. I love meeting new people and experiencing new things, making new connections with people in different places.’ – Millicent Simmonds
‘Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.’ – Zoe Saldana
‘Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I’m listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart.’ – Alexander Ovechkin
‘The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.’ – Merab Mamardashvili
‘A quiet mind cureth all.’ – Robert Burton
‘My mind is my own church.’ – Thomas Paine
‘A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.’ – Zendaya
‘People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.’ – Carrie-Anne Moss
‘It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.’ – DaBaby
‘People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.’ – Blaise Pascal
‘None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.’ – Lydia M. Child
‘Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.’ – Ernest Holmes
‘Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.’ – Constantin Brancusi
‘You can’t be a creative thinker if you’re not stimulating your mind, just as you can’t be an Olympic athlete if you don’t train regularly.’ – Ken Robinson
‘The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.’ – Matt McGorry
‘The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.’ – Antony Jay
‘To many people, ‘biodiversity’ is almost synonymous with the word ‘nature,’ and ‘nature’ brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.’ – Cary Fowler
‘Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.’ – J. K. Rowling
‘Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.’ – Virginia Woolf
‘When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don’t mind, but he has it in his back pocket.’ – Don Rickles
‘When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.’ – Mick Mars
‘The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.’ – Franz Kafka
‘I don’t mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.’ – Cal Ripken, Jr.
‘Your mind is what makes everything else work.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
‘Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.’ – Matthieu Ricard
‘In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.’ – Miriam Makeba
‘Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.’ – Thomas S. Monson
‘A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.’ – John Maynard Keynes
‘The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.’ – Charles Hamilton Houston
‘People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.’ – Marco Pierre White
‘Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.’ – Joseph A. Schumpeter
‘I’ve given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.’ – Oscar Levant
‘Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.’ – Shirin Ebadi
‘Travel, of course, narrows the mind.’ – Malcolm Muggeridge
‘I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me.’ – Suge Knight
‘I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don’t show it. I know how to hide my emotions.’ – Lil Tjay
‘Coy Wire played in the NFL for 9 years and is now a motivational speaker and has a book out called ‘Change Your Mind.’ He is an amazing person with such positive energy! When Kroy and I first met and started dating, there weren’t a whole lot of people that supported us, but Coy always did.’ – Kim Zolciak-Biermann
‘Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.’ – John Calvin
‘Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I’m a good organiser.’ – Mark Wahlberg
‘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.’ – John Adams
‘All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.’ – Marie Curie
‘The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.’ – Peggy Noonan
‘I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.’ – Anna Quindlen
‘I can’t always control my body the way I want to, and I can’t control when I feel good or when I don’t. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.’ – Michael J. Fox
‘Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.’ – William Feather
‘I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.’ – Larry Wilmore
‘The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.’ – May Sarton
‘We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.’ – Thucydides
‘Problems only exist in the human mind.’ – Anthony de Mello
‘The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.’ – Claude Levi-Strauss
‘The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too – the mind is damaged, too.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates
‘Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind’s tearing tension.’ – Sri Chinmoy
‘I’ll never forget where I came from. It’s always on my mind.’ – Mohamed Salah
‘The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.’ – William Wordsworth
‘Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.’ – George Orwell
‘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.’ – Saint Augustine
‘Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.’ – Dogen
‘I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.’ – Magic Johnson
‘I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don’t mind that.’ – Janet Jackson
‘What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.’ – Alice Walker
‘To be creative means to connect. It’s to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.’ – Nawal El Saadawi
‘Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.’ – Guru Nanak
‘Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.’ – Edward Bach
‘Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner’s manual for your own mind. It’s a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?’ – Daniel Goldstein
‘I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.’ – Victor Hugo
‘In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another’s sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.’ – Saint Basil
‘On a bad day, I’ll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world’s population’s eyes.’ – Daniel Ricciardo
‘I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.” – Elayne Boosler
‘Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.’ – Jacques Barzun
‘I’d say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.’ – Corey Feldman
‘The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
‘I’m a grown man. I have my own style, I have my own mind, I have my own heartbeat.’ – Kelly Oubre, Jr.
‘Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.’ – William Shakespeare
‘Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.’ – Bill Watterson
‘You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.’ – Gordie Howe
‘I have a one-track mind. That’s all that I’m interested in – love. And the lack of it. When it stops.’ – John Cassavetes
‘The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.’ – Albert Pike
‘The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.’ – Menander
‘The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.’ – H. P. Lovecraft
‘The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.’ – Dee Hock
‘Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.’ – E. O. Wilson
‘When people get their mind made up about something, then it’s: ‘Don’t bother me with facts.’ They’ve got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don’t even give you a fair hearing.’ – Frank Peretti
‘I’m black, so I should be able to play a ‘thug?’ No. Hello. Open your mind. I’m a person that believes in breaking barriers.’ – Kylie Bunbury
‘We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.’ – Robert Mugabe
‘If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.’ – Afrika Bambaataa
‘The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it’s the first time – with a beginner’s mind and an amateur’s love.’ – Willem Dafoe
‘When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years – now it’s called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.’ – Dietrich Mateschitz
‘For me, collages manage to – it satisfies all of my madness, like I’m able to make these obsessive things, but then I’m also able to make these very strong statements. I don’t know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there’s sort of a power.’ – Wangechi Mutu
‘I wouldn’t mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian, or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don’t see any reason to change that.’ – Stan Lee
‘Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.’ – Strom Thurmond
‘Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.’ – Joseph Addison
‘When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.’ – Samuel Johnson
‘I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn’t beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t cool. I wasn’t part of the ‘Terminator’ franchise.’ – Tom Felton
‘The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world – mental and material – in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.’ – Archibald Hill
‘Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.’ – Jocko Willink
‘I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.’ – Alexis Arguello
‘The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.’ – Robertson Davies
‘To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.’ – Robert Southey
‘The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.’ – E. B. White
‘Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I’ve gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn’t make you feel fatigued.’ – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
‘The fact that three-fifths of an octopus’ neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.’ – Sy Montgomery
‘The child’s mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.’ – Maria Montessori
‘Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can’t control my thoughts or even my body at times.’ – Vic Fuentes
‘If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.’ – Clint Eastwood
‘My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.’ – John Kennedy
‘Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.’ – William J. H. Boetcker
‘When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.’ – James Earl Jones
‘If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.’ – Kylie Minogue
‘This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.’ – Omar N. Bradley
‘Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?’ – Vince Lombardi
‘I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person – mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.’ – Ja Rule
‘A man is known by the company his mind keeps.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
‘I didn’t have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.’ – Martina Hingis
‘The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.’ – James Thomson
‘I don’t mind UFO’s and ghost stories, it’s just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.’ – Robert Stack
‘The mind cannot foresee its own advance.’ – Friedrich August von Hayek
‘There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.’ – Antonio Damasio
‘There’s something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what’s lurking in them.’ – Richard O’Brien
‘Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.’ – Mark Manson
‘What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.’ – Samuel Alexander
‘I find that as an athlete, we don’t get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.’ – Justin Gatlin
‘Irony is the hygiene of the mind.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco
‘The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That’s where the music lives. That’s where my music comes from.’ – Clarence Clemons
‘Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.’ – Jimmy Buffett
‘When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.’ – Loren Eiseley
‘History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.’ – Terence McKenna
‘I don’t mind being called a puppet. But I’m the puppet of the people.’ – Joko Widodo
‘I haven’t had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It’s somewhat complicated to understand that. I’ve hardly ever spoken about it. You’re in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.’ – Byron Katie
‘No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.’ – Anne Bronte
‘A lot of people can throw darts. Its just how they think about the game. Thats how Ive improved. My mind is different.’ – Gerwyn Price
‘In my mind, I’ve never lost a fight.’ – Jon Jones
‘If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.’ – Brian Koslow
‘Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.’ – Adam Savage
‘Vijay Anand’s death marks the passing away of a true, original mind. Vijay had charisma and cinematic dazzle. He was the first who gave Indian film directors the status of a star.’ – Mahesh Bhatt
‘I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.’ – Amy Tan
‘If there’s any object in human experience that’s a precedent for what a computer should be like, it’s a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.’ – Jaron Lanier
‘People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.’ – Tim Vine
‘I like Obama. I don’t know who could do a better job. He’s got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I’d like to see him rally support a little better.’ – Ted Turner
‘Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That’s what I want to do.’ – Erykah Badu
‘Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.’ – Mark Victor Hansen
‘The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.’ – Elyn Saks
‘The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.’ – Colin Wilson
‘I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.’ – Jacqueline Cochran
‘You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.’ – Aiden Wilson Tozer
‘Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.’ – Roberto Cavalli
‘Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.’ – Edward Gibbon
‘So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.’ – Radha Mitchell
‘You’re immortal, aren’t you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death…You’re not supposed to start pondering it until you’re old. And there’s nothing like being told you’ve got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.’ – Timothy Spall
‘When you see a nation deep in sexual sin, pervasively affirming of homosexuality, and the insanity of a reprobate mind, where they make laws to criminalize righteousness and to legalize gross evil, you know that nation’s under judgment.’ – John MacArthur
‘Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.’ – Ida Tarbell
‘The energy of the mind is the essence of life.’ – Aristotle
‘It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.’ – Roger Babson
‘I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus
‘If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that’s the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy’s mind. But most people don’t do that.’ – Christopher Voss
‘Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.’ – Bryant H. McGill
‘The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they’re doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.’ – Paul S. Kemp
‘All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.’ – Marjory Stoneman Douglas
‘Don’t let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.’ – Katori Hall
‘Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.’ – Lydia Lunch
‘Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn’t do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.’ – Michael Oher
‘I thought ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.’ – Gerard Way
‘But I don’t think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.’ – Richard Serra
‘When I see someone I think is cool, he’s a pretty well-adjusted individual. He’s not too affected one way or the other by what’s happening, no matter what’s going through his mind.’ – Willie Nelson
‘When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.’ – Howard Zinn
‘The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.’ – Pat Buchanan
‘He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘We need to bear in mind that we don’t have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims.’ – Mitch McConnell
‘Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.’ – Roger Bacon
‘A mind too active is no mind at all.’ – Theodore Roethke
‘In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.’ – Henri Poincare
‘All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.’ – Thomas Aquinas
‘Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.’ – Plato
‘Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.’ – Dalai Lama
‘If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.’ – Bodhidharma
‘Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft
‘With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti
‘To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.’ – Buddha
‘Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.’ – Khalil Gibran
‘The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.’ – William Blake
‘The pen is the tongue of the mind.’ – Horace
‘Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.’ – Chanakya
‘He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.’ – Albert Einstein
‘Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.’ – John Locke
‘The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.’ – Sigmund Freud
‘Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.’ – Morihei Ueshiba
‘The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.’ – Earl Nightingale
‘The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.’ – Albert Camus
‘Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.’ – Maya Angelou
‘The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
‘The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith
‘All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.’ – George Santayana
‘There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.’ – John Wooden
‘Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.’ – Terry Pratchett
‘If you believe in something and put it in your mind and heart, it can be realised.’ – Eliud Kipchoge
‘Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.’ – Taylor Swift
‘Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.’ – Marcus Aurelius
‘Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being – in body, mind, and spirit.’ – Greg Anderson
‘If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.’ – Steven Biko
‘Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.’ – Aristotle
‘Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.’ – Ramana Maharshi
‘Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.’ – Groucho Marx
‘The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
‘The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘The mind is everything. What you think you become.’ – Buddha
‘Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.’ – Robert Collier
‘In general, the more food we eat in its natural state – without additives – and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.’ – Rene Descartes
‘The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.’ – Daniel Dennett
‘What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.’ – Swami Sivananda
‘I wouldn’t mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.’ – Henri Matisse
‘The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte
‘Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.’ – Thomas Aquinas
‘So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.’ – Benjamin Franklin
‘The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.’ – Carl Jung
‘A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.’ – Winston Churchill
‘I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.’ – William Shakespeare
‘What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.’ – Dan Quayle
‘The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald
‘I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.’ – Mark Twain
‘Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.’ – B. R. Ambedkar
‘Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.’ – Walt Disney
‘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.’ – Albert Einstein
‘The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.’ – Virat Kohli
‘Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru
‘The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.’ – Edmund Burke
‘I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what’s on my mind, and that’s it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It’s making kids so stupid.’ – Tyler, The Creator
‘When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.’ – Plato
‘The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.’ – Galileo Galilei
‘Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.’ – Joseph Addison
‘Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.’ – Eckhart Tolle
”Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.’ – Alexander Pope
‘More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.’ – Dalai Lama
‘In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.’ – William Penn
‘You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.’ – Marlee Matlin
‘Drugs are a bet with your mind.’ – Jim Morrison
‘The human mind is our fundamental resource.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.’ – Fred Hampton
‘I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.’ – Gerald Jampolsky
‘It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.’ – Buddha
‘Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.’ – Martha Beck
‘Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.’ – Jack Benny
‘Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft
‘Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti
‘I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.’ – Sophia Loren
‘Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.’ – Norman Vincent Peale
‘I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.’ – Michael Phelps
‘He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.’ – Samuel Johnson
‘There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.’ – Kelsang Gyatso
‘Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.’ – John Lennon
‘Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.’ – Mencius
‘As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.’ – Thomas Fuller
‘The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer
‘I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.’ – Margaret Thatcher
‘Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.’ – David Joseph Schwartz
‘All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.’ – Aristotle
‘Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.’ – Ralph Marston
‘Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.’ – Helen Keller
‘Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don’t know about. Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.” – Amy Poehler
‘Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.’ – Dale Carnegie
‘Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.’ – Francis Bacon
‘There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.’ – Charles Kettering
‘As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.’ – Alan Moore
‘There’s no real rush to answer the questions you face. To apply the best intellectual answer, you should clear your mind, stay calm, assess the question as well as you can to be comfortable, and then respond.’ – Keith Thurman
‘When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda
‘The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.’ – John Burroughs
‘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.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘Mind over mattress.’ – Stephen Covey
‘Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it’s like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.’ – Simone Biles
‘Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.’ – Calvin Coolidge
‘Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, ‘Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?’ The Great Creator answered, ‘You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.” – George Washington Carver
‘Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.’ – David Hockney
‘For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.’ – Baruch Spinoza
‘Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.’ – Marcus Aurelius
‘I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.’ – Anne Sullivan
‘I’ve always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind – because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn’t be.’ – Nicki Minaj
‘The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.’ – Bodhidharma
‘The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.’ – Pearl S. Buck
‘Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
‘Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Speed is a luxury in my mind, quickness is a necessity.’ – Cooper Kupp
‘Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh
‘Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.’ – Aeschylus
‘When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche
‘The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.’ – Ram Dass
‘I don’t mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven’t really thought about it since then. I don’t go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I’m in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don’t really think about it very much.’ – Taylor Swift
‘The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.’ – Bernie Siegel
‘There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.’ – Thomas Paine
‘As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.’ – Louise L. Hay
‘When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.’ – Paul Auster
‘Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.’ – Robert Fulghum
‘If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.’ – Shunryu Suzuki
‘Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.’ – Edward de Bono
‘Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.’ – Aldous Huxley
‘The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.’ – Christopher Morley
‘The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.’ – Michio Kaku
‘Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men’s bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.’ – Malcolm de Chazal
‘I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.’ – Abraham Lincoln
‘Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.’ – Zhuangzi
‘The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.’ – H. P. Lovecraft
‘Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.’ – Virginia Woolf
‘Where the mind goes, the man follows.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.’ – Steven Pinker
‘I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
‘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.’ – William S. Burroughs
‘I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.’ – Maimonides
‘I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.’ – Vladimir Nabokov
‘Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.’ – Swami Sivananda
‘Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.’ – Buddha
‘Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.’ – Thomas Aquinas
‘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.’ – Albert Einstein
‘The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.’ – Sigmund Freud
‘Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.’ – William Blake
‘A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.’ – Morihei Ueshiba
‘The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.’ – John Wooden
‘He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.’ – Chanakya
‘An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.’ – Albert Camus
‘Wellness is not a ‘medical fix’ but a way of living – a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.’ – Greg Anderson
‘Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.’ – John Locke
‘There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.’ – Thomas Hobbes
‘Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.’ – Earl Nightingale
‘Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.’ – George Santayana
‘The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.’ – Groucho Marx
‘Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.’ – Steven Biko
‘To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.’ – Khalil Gibran
‘Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‘I’d like to write about that.’ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.’ – Maya Angelou
‘If you want to break through, your mind should be able to control your body. Your mind should be a part of your fitness.’ – Eliud Kipchoge
‘If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘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.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.’ – Rene Descartes
‘Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.’ – Robert Collier
‘In adversity remember to keep an even mind.’ – Horace
‘Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.’ – Ramana Maharshi
‘If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by ‘mere machines,’ there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.’ – Daniel Dennett
‘I don’t know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I’m some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.’ – Henri Matisse
‘Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.’ – Terry Pratchett
‘In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith
‘Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.’ – Benjamin Franklin
‘To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
‘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.’ – Aristotle
‘A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.’ – Joseph Addison
‘Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.’ – Dalai Lama
‘Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.’ – Buddha
‘Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft
‘Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti
‘A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.’ – Plato
‘In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.’ – Samuel Johnson
‘It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
‘Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’ – William Shakespeare
‘Your mind is nirvana.’ – Bodhidharma
‘When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘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.’ – Marcus Aurelius
‘No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.’ – Napoleon Hill
‘I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.’ – Taylor Swift
‘I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘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.’ – Thomas Aquinas
‘It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.’ – Albert Einstein
‘A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.’ – Swami Sivananda
‘To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.’ – Thomas Jefferson
‘Law is mind without reason.’ – Aristotle
‘All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? – Buddha’ – Buddha
‘It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.’ – Napoleon Hill