Mindset Quotes

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don’t speculate, simply look at what is there.

This moment! – this here-now – is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

What is beyond the mind, has no boundary, In it our senses end.