Best moments & mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”

Trying Mind Hard Moments Seems Courses Given Goal Consciousness Strange Goes On Accounts Worthy Tiny Truthful Representation Instantaneous

Author:George Saunders

“You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.”

Thinking Mind Play Moments Used Games Sports Ready Training Preparation Pitcher Ballparks

Author:Hank Aaron

“There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.”

World Mind Moments Reality Together Awareness Buddhism Eternity Structure Bounds Fluid Nexus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment.”

Giving Mind Self Moments Awareness Buddhism Drawing Dots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.”

World Mind Self Moments Humanity Possibility Divine Buddhism Western Clouds Gray Shade Intervention Incarnation Divine Intervention Shades Of Gray

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.”

Ifs Mind States Moments Happiness Realizing Buddhism State Of Mind Obscure Live In The Moment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.”

Mind Moments Problem Focus Awareness Findings Solutions Capacity Increase Train Solve Jiu Jitsu

Author:Rickson Gracie

“Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute by precious minute, you are better able to savor each experience. Also, being closely attentive gives you the opportunity to change unwise or painful feelings and responses quickly. In fact, being truly present in a mindful way is an excellent stress reducer and, because of that, can be seen as consciousness conditioning, a strengthening workout for body, mind, heart, and spirit.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing. Creativity is mindfulness in motion-intuitive, artistic motion. Creative moments and activities give you a boost and help you feel energized and good about yourself.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.”

Mind Self Moments Light Next Effort Consciousness Focus Flower Ocean Eternal Awake Glorious Present Moment Butterfly Within You True Self Here And Now Drifting Like A Butterfly

Author:Denise Linn

“Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.”

Want Mind Littles Moments Desire Suffering Filled Mood Not Sure Continuity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.”

Mind States Moments Existence Who You Are Karma Chains Related Particles Timelessness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.”

Mind Moments Fall Justice Risk Bears Regard Necks Warning Privileged

Book:A Death in the Family

Source: A Death in the Family

“A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.”

Mind Art Moments Natural Poet Sentences Painter Historian Impress Exhibits Deficiency One Sentence

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Moments Moving Wish Realizing Attention Gone Paint Concentration Brushes Hares Buzzards

Author:Morris Graves

“A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.”

Mind Self Done Moments Awareness Criticism Self Awareness Unbearable Self Criticism

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.”

Way Mind Moments Masters Bird My Way Traps Canvas Pins Methodology

Author:Joan Miro

“In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.”

Mind Moments Meditation Slow Down Slowing Discreet Sanskrit

Author:Richard Davidson

“The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.”

World Mind Moments Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By a tremendous heave of his spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing them aloft into that rare air and hallowing fire in which all clays must shatter and burst. Keeping the subsoil world under trees in mind, in intelligence, is the least I can do.”

Men World Mind I Can Moments Form Spirit Purpose Can Do Fire Air Tree Land Creation Divine Tradition Redemption Uplifting Sparks Trapped Clay Mute

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“When I fight I try to empty my mind... I only see that moment, nothing else matters.”

Trying Mind Matter Moments Fighting Empty That Moment Mma

Author:Lyoto Machida

“Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.”

World Mind Moments Given Imagination Quality Failing Release

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.”

Mind Moments Existence Meditation Walking Clarity Unexpected Standing Out Illumination Pilgrimage Walking Meditation

Author:David Fontana

“Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your Heart, by trusting the inner guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'response-ability', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.”

Way Needs Mind Heart Self Moments Opportunity Natural Ability Perfect Responsibility Unique Response Contact Recognizing Guru Satsang

Author:Mooji

“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”

Mind Moments Feelings Certain Fall Women Imagination Pure Fairs Strive Goddess Nests Boyish

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.”

“There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.”

Men Mind Heart States Moments Truth Life Is Spirit Love Is Pure Beats Incredibles Purity Inward Credible

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

“[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.”

World Mind Real Moments Happens Given Vision Happenings Substance Real World Hallucinations

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.”

“A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. [...] That by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.”

Men World Mind Mean Matter Moments Dream Suffering Song Effort Known Fellows Every Man Warrior Companion Transformed Toil Astonishing Ephemeral Portal Positiveness

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.”

Mind Wells May Moments Causes Doubt Wise Satisfied Contentment Portions Not Happy Unwise Inverse

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.”

Mind Kind Moments Use Body Spirit Rooms Focus Weight Breaths Focused Your Body Lifts Floating Stay Focused Strengthening Weight Room

Author:Phil Jackson

“Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.”

Mind Art Moments Government Difficult Common Democracy Habit Citizens Spheres Literacy Ratios Habits Of Mind

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.”

Mind Kind Book Ideas Moments Stories Decision Originals Determine That Moment Breakfast Short Story Cereal Original Ideas Second Thoughts Breakfast Cereal

Author:Douglas Adams

“Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.”

Mind Moments Christian Ought Prepared

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.”

Mind Firsts Moments Computer Desks Keyboards

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

Needs Mind Moments Would Be Running Moving Beauty Delight Stability Delightful Suspended Vertigo

Author:Anne Carson

“Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.”

People Ifs Feels Mind Looks Ends Play Moments Able Wanted Lying Realizing Dark Darkness Seeing Direct Handle Dark Moments

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Book Moments Turns Sound Information Ought Scared Dramatic Phrases Copies Admitting History Books

Author:David Weber

“We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.”

Mind Play Moments Roles Fashion Theory Essentials Intellectual Weight Institutions Observation Interpretation Elsewhere Nevertheless Competing Heresy Authoritarianism Inertia

Author:Hubert Reeves

“It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.”

Mind Littles Stills Moments Facts Truth Known Gone Innocent

Author:Barry Long

“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping”

Knows Way Mind Moments Chance Air Standing Affair Solve Best Way Spinning Pennies Dilemma Standing There Up In The Air Make Up Your Mind

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.”

Giving Mind Ideas Moments Body Forget Pops Accidents Enthusiasm Wander Productive New Ideas Daydreaming Receptive Mind Body

Author:Linda Stone

“Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.”

Mind Moments Home Meditation Source Present Moment Anticipation Back Home Hesitation Agitation Spiritual Leader Meditation Mind

Book:Wisdom for the New Millennium

Source: Wisdom for the New Millennium

“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.”

Needs Mind Mean States Moments Form Individual Creation Particular Expression Mood Rhythm Release Colour Appropriate State Of Mind Imperatives Individual Work

Author:Lyonel Feininger

“Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be.”

Mind Moments Body Powerful Truth Is Essentials

Author:Ralph Marston

“When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.”

Ifs Want Mind Persons Moments Helping Problem Eye Earth Together Remember Lying Night Stars Clear Sea Fields Students Summer Solve Gravity Want U Magnet Looking Down Summer Nights

Author:Jack Kornfield

“My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.”

Mind Moments Light Remember Hours Loses Chance Environment Buddhism Who You Are Evening Stillness Rama Transcendental Losing Yourself Seminars Remember Who You Are

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

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