Mind Quotes - Page 4

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

...our minds are driven to answer questions that far transcend the bounds of our own lives.

If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

Pema Chödrön

Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of the mind. Do you follow? When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.

Haruki Murakami

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity...

Eckhart Tolle

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

Lauren DeStefano

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

C.S. Lewis

Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better

Jay Woodman

By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware of a young man sitting just behind me and to the left. I had noticed him when he first entered the mediation hall, and had felt a flash of annoyance at the time: something about him, especially his beard, had struck me as too calculatedly dishevelled, as if he were trying to make a statement. Now his audible breathing was starting to irritate me, too. It seemed studied, unnatural, somehow theatrical. My irritation slowly intensified - a reaction that struck me as entirely reasonable and proportionate at the time. It was all beginning to feel like a personal attack. How much contempt must the bearded meditator have for me, I seethed silently, deliberately to decide to ruin the serenity of my meditation by behaving so obnoxiously? Experienced retreat-goers, it turns out, have a term for this phenomenon. The call it 'vipassana vendetta'. In the stillness tiny irritations become magnified into full-blown hate campaigns; the mind is so conditioned to attaching to storylines that it seizes upon whatever's available. Being on retreat had temporarily separated me from all the real causes of distress in my life, and so, apparently, I was inventing new ones. As I shuffled to my narrow bed that evening, I was still smarting about the loud-breathing man. I did let go of the vendetta eventually - but only because I'd fallen into an exhausted and dreamless sleep

Oliver Burkeman

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

Eckhart Tolle

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

Aristotle

The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existant and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail.

Sri Aurobindo

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

Ben Marcus

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.

Charles Duhigg

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom

Jay Woodman

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.

Kimberly Stedronsky Adams

Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you'lll be fit to face anything.

Jay Woodman

So it is with the mind, Nandini. Allow it to be in balance. Avoid extremes: the middle way is better. Neither force the mind too hard into concentration nor let it wander aimlessly. Meditation is to pay attention, to be aware of your breathing, your posture, your feelings, your perceptions, your thoughts, and all that passes through your mind and the mind itself; whatever is going on within you and between you and the universe. Meditation is not just sitting for an hour here or an hour there; meditation is a way of life. It is practiced all the time. There is no separation between meditation and everyday living. When you have ceased to be bound by the past or by the future, when you are fully present in the here and now, then it is meditation.

Satish Kumar

Beauty lies in the mind, inner soul....Beauty lies in the innocence, appreciation, understanding, warmth, expressions, caring nature, behavior towards others, the depth of understanding the situations, the kind of sufferings, struggles, losses, difficulties, sorrows, happiness- the thick n thins through which person sails throughout hi/her life. Which ultimately reflects on your face- the ultimate reflection of your mind and thus evolves a beautiful personality.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

The only way you can own this moment is to evict the victim mentality from the dwelling of your mind.

Steve Maraboli

It was strange what Chris was feeling within, but he didn’t mind for he was loving her.

Moffat Machingura

Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts.

Bryant McGill

Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn’t make you a failure—giving up does.

Lorii Myers

This is about me being ready to succeed.When I win in my mind, I truly win.Anything worthwhile deserves some time.I will do it this time! No excuses!

Lorii Myers

The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.

Haruki Murakami

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

Bryant McGill

That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.

Haruki Murakami

Visualization engages the mind and encourages the body.

Lorii Myers

My plate is full; I dig that. And I can't be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has no bounds.

T.F. Hodge

You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

Dylan Anders Porter

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You shouldn't change your mind, your heart. Go get happy.

Ariel Seraphino

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

Ben Johnson

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed against the body, but against the freedom of the consciousness.

Bryant McGill

The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of the mind only per analogiam.

Ernst Von Feuchtersleben

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Ana Monnar

When we change our thoughts, we will change our experiences.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.

Kiersten White

For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones

Oliver Burkeman

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Christopher Morley

A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes

Munia Khan

When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.

Molly Friedenfeld

Your mind is the most powerful wonder. It can be your greatest enemy or your closest ally.There are no limits to what you can achieve if only you believe.

Michelle Horst

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds," she says, uttering the phrase as if secrets to the universe have just been shared. "Perhaps that is how learning can help you. However, first you must see it, feel it, and then believe it. When you do, where it takes you may surprise.

Camron Wright

This wobbly worldhost to insects and lintand a thousand pithy waysto feel unserious each minuteIt brings abouta great softening of the mind, likethe clouded edges of sea glass (thisfilter you could download and apply)A poultice or an opiate,rigidly individual. Aloneand erasing sentences to splinters.(Poem No. 5)

Erin J. Watson

I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind.

Saurabh Sharma

Don't you know romance is mind's way of getting rid of it's own duality?

Saurabh Sharma

your perception is your right in your mind

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Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Walt Disney Company

DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.

SupaNova Slom

If a man is not sure of his future, he should consciously adjust his thinking.

Duop Chak Wuol

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

John Eldredge

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

Thomas Mann

Hearts In MeIf I look to the world with hearts in my eyesThen surely I’ll be intrigued and inspired.If I touch the world with hearts in my handsThen surely I’ll learn how to understand.If I listen to the world with hearts in my earsThen surely I’ll truly be able to hear.If I speak with the world with hearts in my mouthThen surely I’ll be kind and gentle enough.If I think of the world with hearts in my mindThen surely I’ll be awake to all life.If I reach for the world with hearts in my palmsThen surely its love will flow through my arms

Jay Woodman

How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life? We might, as a society, slowly find it possible to accept that one in four citizens are likely to have experience some form of emotional, psychical, sexual or spiritual abuse (McQueen, Itzin, Kennedy, Sinason, & Maxted, 2008), in itself a figure unimaginable and hidden twenty years ago. However, accepting the way a hurt and hurting parent or stranger re-enacts their disturbance with a vulnerable child or children remains far easier to digest than to consider the intellectually planned, scientific, methodical, procedures of organized child-abusing perpetrators-in other words, torture.

Valerie Sinason

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Idries Shah

No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for this is the mind. Not two human beings have the same mind. At the same time, human beings have almost no grasp of their own cognitive systems. I don't, you don't, nobody does. All we know—or think we know—is but a fraction of the whole cake. A mere tip of the icing.

Haruki Murakami

A Soul Knowing: You are the sum total of the Body, Mind, and Soul, and each of these aspects of you has a purpose and a function, but only one has an agenda: the Soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

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