It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
Emotions are powerful, but they also change as quick as the wind. That's why the Lord says to renew your mind. Don't base decisions on what you feel.
Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I'll never understand God. My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
My life will be measured in years; his will be measured in memories. I'm determined that whatever time we have together will never fade from his mind.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Love heals: there is no infirmity of body, mind, heart or soul that can withstand unconditional love.
The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.
Being in love changes a person…a modest touch changes one’s mind, a lone thought one’s reasoning, but a kiss my friend, well that changes one’s existences.
Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored
In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.
In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, now matter the time or place.
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein
For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? .
Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
