Mind Quotes · Page 225

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.

— John Wooden

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

— Henry Fielding

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I never go with something in mind. I like having an array of generations in my outfits!

— Lily Collins

I'm not a super-selfish person, so whatever I'm asked to do I don't mind doing.

— Weston McKennie

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to…

— Deacon Jones

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

— Eric Hoffer

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to…

— Simone Weil

It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together,…

— Frederick Lenz

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because…

— Anonymous

Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a…

— Roger Ebert

There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the…

— Rumaan Alam

All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one…

— Pema Chodron

I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is…

— Louis Finkelstein

Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years…

— Cecil B. DeMille

I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision…

— Albert Einstein

“Still, the Doctor walked among the terrors with a steady head. No man better known than he, in Paris at that day;…

— Charles Dickens

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth…

— Benjamin Franklin

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never…

— Steve Perry

“I don't think there is anything like the awareness of space to process emotion. That space is such an incredible processor. There…

— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…

— Charles Darwin

The Word of God changes lives. Renew and encourage your mind and life daily by reading your Bible.

— Pauline Seaport

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

— Epictetus

“I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It's good to mind about things but not to give it too much weight, because there are some things you cannot change.

— Bianca Balti

“he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase”

— Milan Kundera

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

— Maria Edgeworth

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

— Ambrose Bierce

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to…

— Don DeLillo

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

— Satchel Paige

“I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.”

— S.J. Watson

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

— Maureen Daly

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

— Adam Sandler

Get hurt in a fight... got to keep going... Heart and mind, they kind of go hand in hand.

— Brad Tavares

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

— John Kricfalusi

When someone has enemies in mind he will never stop paying for fight. If you can't help, just watch for fun.

— Anonymous

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

— Oliver Stone