Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don’t mind that.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Being tired isn’t anything. What’s important is the mind. The body being tired isn’t important. You can get over the body being tired by resting for a half-hour or an hour. What’s important is whether the mind is tired.
Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
It’s odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You’ll have a nice time, then two years later you’ll be like, ‘There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?’
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.
You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can’t learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
I tell you, gospel music is very uplifting. It’s great. It’s just a lot of fun to write, and it’s wonderful for the heart, soul, mind, and spirit. It’s just great.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
Divorce is hard enough when you’re an adult – never mind when you’re a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.
The march of the human mind is slow.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
For me, aggression means not to be shy and to do what your mind tells you.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Being a great baker and pastry chef requires the upmost open mind. I try every dessert that comes my way!
In many ways, writing is the act of saying ‘I,’ of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, ‘Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.’ It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Keep in mind, when two enemies are talking, they’re not fighting, they’re talking. They might be yelling and screaming, but at least they’re talking. It’s when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence.
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
You don’t have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won’t get better and that I won’t have time to practice. To be called a ‘jazz musician’ – it’s a big responsibility.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
I don’t mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
My attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
When you see the ocean and the infinite, it empties your mind.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
