Quotes by Mind How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day. Anne Frank mindnew-dayfall This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. Anne Lamott mindbookchildren When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. Anne Lamott agreebiggermind Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. Anne Lamott weightearthmind My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. Anne Lamott neighborhoodmindtrying You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. Anne Lamott intuitionspacemind Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. Anne Lamott mindpatiencetrying To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass. Anne Lamott asspowerfulmind ...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. Anne Lamott healsickmind And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear. Anne Lamott mindtryingquiet I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place. Anne Lamott machinescrazymind Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation. Anne Lamott sickmindlong I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world. Anne Lamott selfmindhome That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it. Anne Lamott oxygenselfmind Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. Anne Lamott great-workreadingmind I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing your costume underneath your own clothes! I suppose things are always ticking away in the back of your mind. Anne-Marie Duff clothesmindhome Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. Anne McCaffrey halloweenscarymind Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand. Anne Morrow Lindbergh creativemindhands The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. Anne Morrow Lindbergh childhoodmindheart For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs that it is the birthday of Jesus. It is the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun-Dies Natalis Invicti Solis. Christmas is a relic of sun worship. Anne Nicol Gaylor christianmindjesus«4041424344454647484950»
