State Of Mind Quotes - Page 5

• Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

  James Dickey

  Feelings, Mind, Peculiar

  James Dickey (1984). “Self-interviews”, p.139, LSU Press

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• What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

  Clay Walker

  Country, Believe, Heart

  Clay Walker (2013). “Jesus Was a Country Boy: Life Lessons on Faith, Fishing, and Forgiveness”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Design, Perception, Mind

  Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

  Prentice Mulford

  Journey, Agency, Shopping

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding”, p.149, e-artnow

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• Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

  Paul Theroux

  Attitude, Mind, States

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Mind, Movement

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• Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Mind, Lasts, Resolution

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• Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

  John Steinbeck

  Texas, Mind, Obsession

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 4, 1962.

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• If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Peaceful, Mind, Causes

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mind, Disease, Crime

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.325, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

  Prentice Mulford

  Mind, Fixing, States

  Prentice Mulford (2013). “Thoughts are Things & God In You”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Insightful, Mind, Three

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Heart

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• COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mind, Comfort, Neighbor

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk piously about 'the solitude of the heart,' but if that does not somehow work its way into our experience, then we have missed the point of the Disciplines. We are dealing with actions, not merely states of mind.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Heart, Sight

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• Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching rains in the winters, fog off-shore in the summers, salmon surging up the streams - all these together make up a particular state of mind, a place-specific intelligence shared by all the humans that dwell therein, but also by the coyotes yapping in those valleys, by the bobcats and the ferns and the spiders, by all beings who live and make their way in that zone. Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue.

  David Abram

  Summer, Rain, Winter

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• A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

  Minor White

  Mind, Photographer, Film

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• The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Lying, Mind, Suffering

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• Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Prayer, Play, Games

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• Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless creatures, it increases our receptivity to human cruelty and war and steals our humanity, peace and soul. Very little speeds and greases your way to Hell, like animal cruelty.

  Russell Boyd

  War, Animal, Soul

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• Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.

  Frank Pierson

  Dog, Morning, Mean

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• Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

  Robert Hillyer

  Imperfect World, Imperfection, Mind

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• As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Moving, Eating Well, Long

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• I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.

  Rosa Parks

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1948). “My Story”, Scholastic

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• A good deal is a state of mind.

  Lee Iacocca

  Mind, States, Deals

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