Mind Quotes
A sound nation is built of individuals sound in body and mind and spirit. Government dares not ignore the individual citizen.
In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world of fear, yoga promises strength and courage. A healthy body and a disciplined mind are the foundations of a world free from fear. In crafting a new self through Yoga, we create a new world.
We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.
Yoga is a vision for a harmonious future for humanity. It is an "stage" i.e. a state of mind not "system".
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.
Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.
It is true that impatience, the mother of stupidity, praises brevity, as if such persons had not life long enough to serve them to acquire a complete knowledge of one single subject, such as the human body; and then they want to comprehend the mind of God in which the universe is included, weighing it minutely and mincing it into infinite parts, as if they had to dissect it!
The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
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