Mind Quotes

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred, but realized later they can take everything from me except my mind and heart.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

The device of "rejection" may temporarily cover up anxiety, but it does not bestow peace of mind and emotional security.

There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance.

But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. ... What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?

A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Certainly one can never forget, if that means erasing totally for his mind. But when we forgive, we forget in the sense that the evil deed is no longer a mental block impeding a new relationship.

Let us consider, first, the need for a tough mind, characterized by incisive thinking, realistic appraisal, and decisive judgment. The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

Often in the casual remarks of great men one learns their true mind in an intimate way.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.