O Quotes
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“Our mind is the only place where we attain absolute freedom.”
“Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.”
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
“Our mind is wired to tag every unknown as dangerous, even new opportunities. Only by changing the perspectives, we can distinguish between dangers and opportunities?”
Source: Quantraz
“Our mind is working all the time with two goals in sight: first is to minimise the pain and the second is to maximise the happiness. In its attempt to achieve its twin objectives, it is always moving back and forth in the three dimensions of time so that it can heal the pain and bring happiness to the present.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it.”
“Our mind needs a code to translate consensus images into thoughts and feelings… the translation code takes the form of a mental narrative we tell ourselves; a story that implies particular correspondences between outer images and inner feelings and ideas. The translation code is thus a myth… myth is a story that implies a certain way of interpreting consensus reality so to derive meaning and affective charge from its images and interactions.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.”
“Our mind stops racing when we take a nature walk or just look at the clouds that disintegrate at the horizon.”
“Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.”
“Our mind works a bit like a search program in a computer.”
Source: Yes I Am Happy Now!
“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.”
“Our minds and bodies are one,” said the sensei. “When we can conquer a troubled mind, we can focus on the workings of the body and do things we would have once thought impossible.”
Source: Remembrandt
“Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.”
“Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.”
“Our minds are a battle ground between good and bad ideas; we are whatever side wins the battle”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.”
“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”
Source: The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.”
“Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.”
“Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think
“Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.”
“Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar”
“Our minds are confused, but not our souls.”
“Our minds are constantly filled with self-doubts and internal conflicts that accuse us of being helpless, miserable, stupid, and deceived.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.”
“Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.”
Source: The Powers of The Mind
“Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.”
“Our minds are lazier than our bodies.”
“Our minds are like bustling train stations. Thoughts constantly arrive and depart, some fleeting whispers, others insistent shouts. But just like a passerby isn't rattled by every announcement, we needn't be swayed by every thought. It's the latching on, the belief that a random thought holds absolute truth, that burdens us. True suffering stems from clinging to these mental trains, mistaking them for our final destination.”
“Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.”
“Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.”
Source: Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity
“Our minds are malleable. Our minds can be possessed - possessed so gradually that we don’t even realize we’ve lost control.”
Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.”
“Our minds are powerful instruments capable of shaping our reality. By cultivating positive, focused, and empowering thoughts, we initiate a transformative process within ourselves.”
Source: Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas
“Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.”
Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate
“Our minds are ruled by passions more than reason. And sometimes they run out of control.”
Source: Revelation
“Our minds are shaped by the books we read.
Our characters, by the people we meet.
Our spirits by the love we give.”
“Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.”
“Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large.”
“Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“Our minds are the key to any challenges we face, both in our sports and in the world. If we can relax in the midst of our focus, we can elevate our performance.”
Source: Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes
“Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.”
Source: The Cobra Candlestick
“Our minds are there to make our dreams a reality. Our imagination is there to make our dreams.”
“Our minds are truly the one place where no one else can follow us. Even if we try, if we constantly express every thought that comes to mind, if we exist as a walking stream of consciousness, we won’t be able to convey everything that’s going on. There are emotions and feelings and sensations that we’d never be able to articulate.”
Source: This Is Why They Hate Us
“Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.”
Source: The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities
“Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.”
Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People
“Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.”
Source: The Careful Use of Compliments