State Of Mind Quotes - Page 31

• Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Flower, Color, Sky

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• I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

  Christina Aguilera

  Thinking, Listening, Mind

  "Christina Aguilera Answers our Burning Questions, Says 'I Don't Believe in Regrets'" by Angie Romero, abcnews.go.com. October 1, 2012.

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• These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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• ...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Meditation, Mind, Delight

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.77, Penguin Books India

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• Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.

  George C. Marshall

  Loyalty, Determination, Persistence

  Military Review, October 1948.

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• Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

  E. V. Knox

  Boredom, Mind, Excitement

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• A child is born with no state of mind,
  Blind to the ways of mankind.
  God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too,
  Because only God knows what you'll go through.

  Melvin Glover

  Children, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Civilization, Mind, Foundation

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

  Eric Clapton

  Reality, Emotional, Mind

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• Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

  Oleg Cassini

  Fashion, Mirrors, Style

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• I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Travel, Adventure, Hands

  Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

  Agnes Martin

  Adventure, House, Joy

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• Picked up the yoga, put down the soda.
  My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over.
  Life of a stoner (if you still concerned),
  I never lose, I only win or learn;
  It's all about your state of mind.

  Dizzy Wright

  Rap, Yoga, Winning

  Song: State Of Mind, 2014

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• Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Determination, Spring

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Spring, Suicidal

  Suicide: A Study in Sociology bk. 3, ch. 3 (1897) (translation by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson)

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• Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

  Stephen Levine

  Gratitude, Pain, Compassion

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.109, Harmony

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• We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Eye, Science

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• Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Mean, Confusion

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.86, Penguin Books India

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Inspirational, Mean, Caring

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.168, Penguin

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• Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Moving, Mean

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

  Ernest Renan

  Happiness, Joy, Mind

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• Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

  Bob Phillips

  Love, Mind, States

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• Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

  George C. Marshall

  Courage, Attitude, Mind

  Military Review, October 1948.

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• Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Athlete, Mind

  Jeff Galloway (1984). “Galloway's Book on Running”

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