Mind Quotes
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
Michael Leunig -
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.
Seneca the Younger
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Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
Thomas Sowell -
The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
Rumi -
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Seneca the Younger -
As a Believer, keep the Word at the forefront of your mind at all times.
Creflo A. Dollar -
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
George Washington -
There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
Seneca the Younger
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No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
Selma Lagerlof -
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
William Wordsworth -
Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.
Kathy Smith -
Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.
Shekhar Kapur -
If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.
Steve Martin -
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
Ajahn Chah
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
William Gibson -
Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.
Catherine Marshall -
When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
Seneca the Younger -
It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
Seneca the Younger -
Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
Paul Hindemith
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The enemy is always in the mind.
William Goldman -
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
Bill Crawford -
If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.
Al Koran -
Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.
Noelle Scaggs