State Of Mind Quotes - Page 28

• A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cancer, Mind, Disease

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• Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

  David Bowie

  Men, Light, Mind

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Magazine Interview, www.bowiewonderworld.com. June 16, 2002.

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• There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, People

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• Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Mind

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• In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

  Bill Vaughan

  Optimism, Effort, Mind

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• If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Lingerie

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• all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Men, Perception

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.39, Rowman Altamira

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• There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

  Cate Blanchett

  Mean, Cells, Expression

  "Cate Blanchett on Philanthropy and Beauty". Interview with Maureen Choi, www.marieclaire.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

  Luise Rainer

  Joy, Mind, Sorrow

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• I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Change, Thinking, Government

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• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

  Ben Harper

  Emotional, Mind, Substance

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• Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

  Jan Morris

  Mind, Quality, Kashmir

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.279, Faber & Faber

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• Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Mind

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• It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Ends, States

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• A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

  Douglas Adams

  Beach, Real, House

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Winning, Mind, Embrace

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Real, Book

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.217, Delacorte Press

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• But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Long, Miracle

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

  Jacques Maritain

  Inspiration, Mind, Doe

  Jacques Maritain (2012). “Christianity and Democracy, the Rights of Man and Natural Law”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Heart, Thank You God, Grace

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• The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Elephants, Design

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• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Mind, States

  Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket

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• Because we're on the outside of everything, and we're a small group of countries - Scandinavia , we have a unique vantage point. We are extremely good at focusing our ideas into art and music and design that fits a global state of mind. Being observers of the rest of the world allows us to express something pure that goes beyond borders, beyond planets.

  Henrik Vibskov

  Country, Art, Unique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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