Quotes on Mind

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

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.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.

Rely on the teaching, not on the person;_x000D_ Rely on the meaning, not on the words;_x000D_ Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional;_x000D_ Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us, and see how contrary to the mind of God they are. . . . They even abstain from the Eucharist and from the public prayers, because they will not admit that the Eucharist is the self-same body of our Savior Jesus Christ which flesh suffered for our sins, and which the Father of His goodness raised up again.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.