Top 699 Mind Quotes

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

I’m not slim. I’m a curvy girl: I’ve got thighs and a bum. I don’t mind baring the fact that I’ve got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it’s important for people to watch someone normal.

I’ve prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well – as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, ‘treat yo’self.’

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease – the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it’s really mental.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

A liberal to me is one who – and it suits some of the dictionary definitions – is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.

Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

A lot of people don’t like bumper stickers. I don’t mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It’s like a little sign that says ‘Hey, let’s never hang out.’

The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.