Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henepola Gunaratana

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Henepola Gunaratana

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

Hector Berlioz

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

Henry David Thoreau

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

Henry Ford

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

Manly Hall

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Man Ray

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

Mandy Moore

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

Johannes Kepler

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation...

John Adams

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

John Adams

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

James Joyce

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Russell Lowell

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

James Redfield

If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

James Grant

Credit is money of the mind.

Laurence Sterne

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

Lamar Odom

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

Libba Bray

Travel opens your mind as few other things do.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

George Gissing

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

George Gilder

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Jon Krakauer

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.