I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and… — William Bernard Ullathorne Copy Share Image
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“The effort mined a core of dizziness inside him. He resisted it, but then realizing that there was nothing attractive about consciousness,… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
“They were still looming at opposite ends of the perspective, each with an absurd pretence of not having the other on his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself;… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that beauty is individual and personal, that the look and feeling you're after is one with which you can… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“But now his body feels like some dumb beast he merely exists inside, and every now and then it lets him know… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“None of it mattered. He would just keep living. They'd taken his freedom, his family, his friends, and— most dear of all— his dreams.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
So 'Heaven On My Mind' is a song I would never have thought about writing. But I really loved the concept knowing… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If… — C. Day Lewis Copy Share Image
Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image