Jane Austen Quotes

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

Before marriage, I was a very shy person with mood swings. But, now I can balance that and have become a better and stronger person.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

It's been the greatest gift that I've been given. Because no matter how much my parents have asked me to be more patient, no matter much my husband has asked me to be more patient, none of it mattered until I had a kid. And then all of sudden I was like, "Oh. I have to be more patient." They were all like, "Yeah! We've been telling you that for twenty years!" And I find it to be a gift. Every day I'm more patient.

I think something that I've learned from other actresses is to really take the time to get to know yourself, especially because I think that your sense of self is easy to lose when you're playing other people.

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

On a daily basis, you must take more care of your mind than just money, money, money!

Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.