Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the...

Imagination is the air of mind.

It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious...

There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

I’ve always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in...

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark – ask any player about when they’ve had a bad game, it’s still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Maybe, it wasn’t stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn’t know how.

I don’t mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else’s object.

By a curious perversity, the human mind refuses to behave itself on the occasions when it should be intensely dramatic. It was so now; the climber suddenly forgot his fears in a smile. The choir...

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except...

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive ‘condensation’ of thought. … Steps really sink from...

It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

There’s an apt expression: ‘If you don’t live in your body, where are you going to live?’ But many of us don’t. We tend to get locked into our heads or our imaginations . ....

I wouldn’t mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves – our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

The Chinese are not going to like being scolded, … But if they are of the mind to, they can read it with a positive spin.

A mind may appreciate anyone, but it takes only heart to respect someone and that’s applicable to everyone and so trust, none could ever honestly deny the fact that the heart is better than the...

Creativity flows when the mind is light. Be light and ignite your imagination.

I was trying to really get into the mind-frame of what was going on. They’re wet, they’re cold, they’re coming ashore and there’s no beer for miles.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul.

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information–these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up...

I can’t help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it’s psychological truth.

Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one’s mind was a paramount duty.

Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought,...

Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy...

I wouldn’t mind even if it’s the only thing people remember me for. It was a privilege just to be there and to contribute to something so wonderful.

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don’t trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said “Shake the soil off your sandals”! What are you waiting for?...

…my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving.

Uninspired minds are perpetual creators of obstacles to progress

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.

If it’s possible in the mind, then it’s possible anywhere.

I don’t mind if they clean it up a little bit. But … they can go without them (expletive) sport coats.

In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so much more than I know.

…not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as “meaningful,” it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

I had a dream about you. We spoke as though we shared one mind. And we did, though you got to use the brain on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while I got it the other...

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

God helps them that help themselves.” When you begin to help yourself, which means to make the best of what is in yourself, you begin to attract to yourself more and more of those helpful...

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young...

[Nature is] not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.

I thought about having a proper room,breathing life into it, and nobody minding.