Quotes About Mind

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.

No concept is a carrier of life.

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

Suppose you try to convince someone, even if only yourself, that change is an illusion. You work your way through each step until you or your listener is convinced. Yet that your mind entertains one premise after the other and finally reaches the conclusion is itself an instance o f the change the argument denies.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.