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

A mind can bleed a heart to death.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

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.

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

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

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.

It wouldn’t be mind control, if you will know you’ve been under mind control.

Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind.

Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I’ve gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn’t make you feel fatigued.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

If I could have anyone’s mind for a day, I really can’t think of anyone other than Einstein.

I’m a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for ‘The Paradise’ and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom...

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

In ‘Self Comes to Mind’ I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those ‘cartooned abstractions of who we are’ operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Anyone who can say and do anything better than that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain...

I look at it as part of the same kind of mind-set that looks at the tourist industry as paramount, and therefore anything that might offend tourists, the powers that be don’t want. So they...

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws...

I’m a human being and I’ve got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn’t know is there, and he’ll never know what’s there because he’s stupid. I suppose you’ll laugh at...

Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit...

I told him I was starting all over again, and if you don’t mind I wanted to get it started up there.

[…] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary a kind of naked and denuding intensity, verily, a bitter destitution,...

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous...

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that...

As filmmakers, we can show where a person’s mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us...

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world,...

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you’re looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the...

In my mind, we didn’t take the step we thought we would take this year. Beyond that, we have to see the big picture and in that context, Larry has strung together some winning seasons...

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it that doth the hurt

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.