Top 1200 Restless Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The overall balance is right. Balance shouldn't be confused with design. There has to be restless jostle and aggression and a bit of dynamism, not just pat-ness or settled-ness or immediate pleasing-ness.

The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and the Savior's doctrine of forgiveness are inseparably connected: The essence of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.

If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left by myself in someone else's place, I often find myself a nice sense of peace engulfing me. I love sinking into an unfamiliar sofa with whatever book happens to be lying nearby.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.