Top 1200 Strength Of Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

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

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

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.

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

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

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

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

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

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.

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

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

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

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

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

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

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

Mental strength is not the same as mental health. Just like someone with diabetes could still be physically strong, someone with depression can still be mentally strong. Many people with mental health issues are incredibly mentally strong. Anyone can make choices to build mental strength, regardless of whether they have a mental health issue.

If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

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.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

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.

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

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

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

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

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

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

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

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

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

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

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.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.