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When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.
Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.
Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade
The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
I'm sure there has been something ridiculous [to sign], but nothing springs to mind. You have the usual things like breasts and such.
I never, ever in my life tried to be outrageous. I've only ever tried to say what was truly on my mind and not pull punches about it.
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.
We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.
It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.
My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters.
The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.
Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.