Mind Quotes

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.