What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
When a man’s mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life. I tell kids that it’s a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it’s up to them to decide which way to bend.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don’t mind going through a little bush to get there!
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Athletics is not so much about the legs. It’s about the heart and mind.
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind’s music, medicine and knowledge.
Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
Everything changes as you get older – your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.
Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don’t be scared of what if.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software – you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
I’m looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.
It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
