Quotes of: Mindful Keyword

Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success.

All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power. ("Mind Over Murder")

Angels of Darkness

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

As Always, Dave

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

Agnes Grey

Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

Annie on My Mind

I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I would have followed anyway. I was in a Norah state of mind.

All the Pieces

In threatening times like these, what good is a peace that demands a controlled environment? We need a peace of heart and mind to see us through the storm when our environment goes berserk.

Amazing Peace-PI

We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.

Aquarium

Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

I could burn this place down As many times as I'd like in my mind, Without any sympathy For the girl or her mother Who live beneath me

Hell in a Basket: A small collection of personal poems.

Now I know it’s because somewhere in my mind, I still harboured hatred and fear for that man, so it was just easier to erect the brick wall and never look back.

Hopeless

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

How Green Was My Valley

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Regrets... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.

The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

I Await the Devil's Coming

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Ideas Have Consequences