Mind Quotes · Page 355

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

— Claude M. Bristol

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

— John Bevere

“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.”

— Charles Dickens

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

— Francois Guizot

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

— Jaggi Vasudev

It's very useful to be able to look inside the mind of a seven-year-old when you're writing for youngsters that age.

— Tom Fletcher

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

— Anne Bronte

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it.…

— Mary Kay Ash

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about…

— Ken Gillespie

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich…

— Wilferd Peterson

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into…

— Hal Boyle

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why…

— Richard Dawkins

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out…

— Joyce Meyer

Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't…

— John Debney

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's…

— Kim Young-ha

There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore…

— Les Standiford

“You are not your mind. You are not your body. You are not even your beliefs-these are only of this world, mere…

— Ted Dekker

Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we…

— Martin Zwilling

I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with…

— John Malkovich

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to…

— Daniel Tammet

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

— Regina Spektor

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that.

— Paul Morrissey

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

— Bliss Carman

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Your mind was wrought in cosmic solitude, Through which careered an

— Allen Tate

“He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

— Jess Walter

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

— Jagapathi Babu

How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?

— Mooji

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

— Thurgood Marshall

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth…

— William Shakespeare

A lot of celebrities are afraid of being out of sight, out of mind. I'm the complete opposite.

— Rob Van Dam

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

— Ram Dass

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

— Clea DuVall

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson