Mind
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like — when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
Wellness is the compete integration of body, mind, and spirit — the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.
My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.