Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bob Woodward

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.

Bo Burnham

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Bill Porter

The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

Bill Paxton

Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

Bill Johnson

Faith is not opposed to the mind. It’s superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.

Bill Johnson

I cannot afford to have one thought in my mind that is not in His

Bill Johnson

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

Bill Johnson

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

Beverly Cleary

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Bernie Mac

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.