My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
“There was even a small groundswell of sympathy for George, confined mainly among those who’d had no personal contact with him.” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“all he could see was the thing he’d been running away from for thirteen years, finally catching up with him. And he… — Avon Gale Copy Share Image
The memory of Audrey is in my innermost mind. And I don't need a foundation to commemorate her. That's perhaps a bonus,… — Robert Wolders Copy Share Image
The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness;… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I developed depression. But I never let people know how down I was feeling. That would have been another burden for my… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I've got to go to school the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
