I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Holding grudges has always proven to eat away one's peace of mind.
Consistent positive self-talk is unquestionably one of the greatest gifts to one's subconscious mind.
Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
