The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along, when one doesn’t come along very often. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

A mind can bleed a heart to death.

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

Earn with your mind, not your time.

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart’s memory but love itself?

Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the...

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing – It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

(The Olympics) are not even on my mind,

The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame...

My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I’m thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because...

People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.

The purpose of pain in life is to regain the inner power of the mind and the innate courage of the heart; to start going from strength to strength to attain, retain and sustain the...

Nothing in the tangible word that isn’t living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to...

How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than...

I may not have a practical mind, but it’s very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

When you truly love a person, problems and heartaches are normal because even if the mind gets angry the heart still cares.

I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Your mind is a blue sky where without fear you can fly.

When I have in my mind that you have a good fastball, it doesn’t matter how nasty you are with some of the other pitches,

I’m kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

Sometimes the storm in your mind takes you to a better decision.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

A million things went through my mind in a second. I thought somebody took him.

The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful....

I’ve deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won’t be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

my mind struggled top condense all that had led to me being here. My vocal cords fought to express the memories that leaked out; I felt the weight of it all pressing down on me.

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible...

The secrets that lead to extraordinary success, won’t make sense to ordinary minds

The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.