Mind Quotes · Page 230

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

— Eva Mendes

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

— James A. Garfield

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

— e. e. cummings

“To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.”

— Ross Caligiuri

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

— Ronnie O'Sullivan

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

— Jimmy Carl Black

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

— Kate Bush

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

— Marcus Aurelius

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond…

— Frederick Lenz

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life…

— Christopher Moore

The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for…

— Christopher Camuto

“The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork,…

— Timothy Zahn

I'm more about mind over muscle. My mindset needs to be the fittest, because it drags my body through whatever needs to…

— Ant Middleton

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

— Alejandro Amenabar

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted…

— Roger Zelazny

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of…

— Brian Tracy

Don't get me wrong - I love Jason Kidd. He's a great point guard (But) how am I comparing myself to him…

— Stephon Marbury

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But,…

— Brandon Sanderson

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed. He was not…

— George Orwell

The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous,…

— John Waters

“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,…

— Ayn Rand

Have you ever noticed the fact that once you begin to think about something, you see it everywhere? Anyone who has ever…

— Michael Gerber

“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all…

— Leo Tolstoy

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

— Gautama Buddha

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

— Dean Koontz

“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.”

— G.K. Chesterton

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

— Marvin Minsky

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.

— Ann Robinson

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

— Novalis

“There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.”

— Harlan Coben

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

— Leon Trotsky

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

— William Lyon Phelps

We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.

— Max Lucado

“You can read her mind only if she lets you. She will let you only if she loves you.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

— Andrew Schneider

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

— Shimon Peres

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

— Dean Koontz

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

— Caroline Knapp