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As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.

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Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mind, Ability, Good Mind

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Love, Positive, Inspiring, Spiritual Guidance, Kind Deeds

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Mind, Kingdoms, Lord, Good Mind

I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

- Mila Kunis

source: "Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: 'There's Nothing We Don't Know About Each Other'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.glamour.com. July 6, 2016.

topic: Dark, Mind, Comedy, Good Mind

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

- Rae Dawn Chong

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mind, Bores, Good Mind

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

- Lori Greiner

topic: Successful, Long, People, Good Mind

Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

- Hartley Coleridge

source: Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother”, p.270

topic: Names, Nymphs, Long, Good Mind

Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Children, Sleep, Giving, Peace And Quiet, Good Mind

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

- Pietro Aretino

source: Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

topic: Sorry, Mind, Age, Good Mind, Shank

My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Good Heart, Good Mind

I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

- Augustus

topic: Mean, Italian, Cities, Good Mind

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

- Joseph Addison

topic: God, Discovery, Perfection, Amiable, Good Mind

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

- Henry Fielding

source: Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

topic: Heart, Mean, Compassion, Every Occasion, Affording

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

- Rene Descartes

source: "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 1), 1637.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teaching, Math Education, Mathematical Logic

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Mind, Action, Reason, Good Mind

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Men, Good Man, Mind, Good Mind

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Children, Sarcasm, Mind, Satirist, Inclination

James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have a good mind so you can't just be a painter; you're going to have to help define the field and keep the tradition going. And he meant walking in his footsteps in a certain way.

- David C. Driskell

source: Source: www.aaa.si.edu

topic: Talking, Mind, Way, Good Mind

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

- Homer

topic: Song, War, Men, Good Mind

The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves; and they maintain that neither the eighth sphere nor the sun revolves....Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it.

- Philipp Melanchthon

topic: Honesty, Moving, Eye, Accepting The Truth, Good Mind

You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.

- Curtis Joseph

topic: Long, Mind, Mind Set, Good Mind

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Travel, Italian, Venice, Good Mind, Brideshead Revisited

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

- Plato

topic: Character, Hands, Mind, Physique, Good Mind

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Writing, Thinking, Mind, Mediocre Minds, Good Mind

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Spiritual, Stupid, Envy, Good Mind, Fear Of Change

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

- Barry Lopez

topic: Mean, Space, Giving, Good Mind, Diverse Society

Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Love, Writing, Italian, Charles I, Raspberries

Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.55, Modern Library

topic: Cute, Smart, Swear To God, Caged, Digging Ditches

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.385, Barnes & Noble

topic: Cities, Mind, Vision, Sanguine, Tale Of Two Cities

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Nature, Roots, Mind, Good Mind

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

- Simon Hobday

topic: Golf, Two, Water, Good Mind

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

- George Crabbe

topic: Book, Cooking, Mind, Reading Good Books, Good Mind

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Thyestes", Act II. 380 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 513-516), 1922.

topic: Wisdom, Intelligence, Mind, Good Mind

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescensionâ€”the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Attitude, Hate, Mind, Good Mind

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

- Tryon Edwards

topic: Character, Mind, Dry, Useful Life, Uselessness

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7206, e-artnow

topic: Spiritual, Men, Ties, Good Mind

It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.

- Richard L. Evans

topic: Real, Teaching, Heart, Meaning Of Friendship, Enrichment

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

- Michelle Obama

source: "10 Things We Learned From Michelle Obama & Meryl Streep in More Magazine". Interview with Sarah Cristobal, www.yahoo.com. June 19, 2015.

topic: Who I Am, People, Common Sense, Good Mind

We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all mean the same thing; all good minds in every religion aim at pleasing the Supreme Being; the means we take differ according to where we are born, and the prejudices we imbibe from education; a consideration which ought to inspire us with kindness and indulgence to each other.

- Frances Brooke

source: Frances Brooke (2010). “The History of Emily Montague”, p.112, New Canadian Library

topic: Kindness, Women, Mean, Supreme Being, Good Mind