Angelina Jolie Quotes

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

When you're on the bus or subway or in your car, why busy your mind with all the garbage of advertisements? Why fill your mind with television and radio? Somehow you have to decide what your mind will receive. I don't mean you shouldn't ever go to movies or watch television, but control what enters your mind and heart. It's not just a question of pushing bad things out but also a question of holding on to something really good.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.

Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind

A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment.