Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

Bruce Lee

Your state of mind is everything.

Brother Lawrence

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

Bridget Fonda

I never did mind about the little things.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Edwidge Danticat

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

Edmund Spenser

Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

Edmund Spenser

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

Edmund Spenser

The noblest mind the best contentment has

Edmund Burke

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Edmund Burke

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Eckhart Tolle

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

Eckhart Tolle

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Eckhart Tolle

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.

Eckhart Tolle

Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

Eckhart Tolle

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

Eckhart Tolle

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Eckhart Tolle

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

Eckhart Tolle

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

Elif Safak

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

Dyan Cannon

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.

Steve Alford

The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable.