State Of Mind Quotes - Page 7

• From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Emotional, Feelings, Mind

  48 Copy quote

• He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

  Norman Douglas

  Mind, Atheism, Scylla

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.166, Courier Corporation

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

  Dick Gregory

  Mind, Poverty, Poor

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

  287 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.

  Kingsley Martin

  Animal, Thinking, Numbers

  4 Copy quote

• NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Giving, Understanding

  4 Copy quote

• The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Mind, Special

  20 Copy quote

• I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

  Kanye West

  Gun, Knives, Up Early

  Song: Family Business

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

  Douchan Gersi

  Motivational, Inspiration, Destiny

  Douchan Gersi (1987). “Explorer”, Tarcher

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Stress, Hands

  55 Copy quote

• From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Karma, Buddhist

  7 Copy quote

• We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Character, Mind

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Aug 12, 2013

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Karma, Powerful

  6 Copy quote

• Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes surfing this bank from Snapper to Kirra, sometimes you don't even think what you're doing but you do it anyway ... You get to the end of a wave and go, what did I do? Sometimes you go into a totally different state of mind.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Thinking, Surfing

  19 Copy quote

• Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

  Mae West

  Fashion, People, Giving

  12 Copy quote

• It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.123, Random House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Doubt, Secret, Mind

  6 Copy quote

• If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

  Anthony Storr

  Writing, Men, Creative

  4 Copy quote

• The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

  Tom Mix

  Cowboy, Mind, Want

  21 Copy quote

• Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

  Minor White

  Photography, Inspiration, Creative

  9 Copy quote

• For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.

  Queen Latifah

  Mind, Bonus, Might

  9 Copy quote

• There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn.

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teaching, Bridges, Skills

  4 Copy quote

• Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

  Frank Brady

  Pride, Player, Mind

  7 Copy quote

• Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

  Richard Rorty

  Discipline, Soul, Intellectual

  11 Copy quote