No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. — Tilopa
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude. — Mencius
With no thoughts, we return to our default, childlike state: happiness! — Mo Gawdat
Mindlessly ‘going through the motions’ without improvement – can be its own form of suffering. — Angela Duckworth
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. — George Berkeley
The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things. — Buddha
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course. — Zhuangzi
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. — Morrie Schwartz
Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous. — Joshua L. Goldberg
Short Mindless Quotes
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings — Diogenes
The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people. — Charles Bukowski
At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning. — Jenny Holzer
There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes. — Calvin Harris
It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless — Takuan Soho
To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life. — Eunhyuk
Emotions aren’t just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know. — R. C. Sproul
Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless. — Eminem
We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself. — Marvin Minsky
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What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don’t really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do? — Kai Greene
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. — Anthony Daniels
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind. — Daniel H. Wilson
I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching. — Freida Pinto
People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply. — Vikas Swarup
The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it. — Peter King
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. — Greg Anderson
I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children. — William H. Macy
I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television. — Charlize Theron
When I first heard the song Don't worry - be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first. — George Carlin
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand. — Sylvia Plath
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. — Hannah Arendt
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system — Bill Mollison
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly. — Pythagoras
Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. — Albert Einstein
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second. — John Lennox
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property. — Assata Shakur
A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd. — Rick Warren
Instead of mindless exercise, train with a specific purpose to become a kick-ass one-hundred-year-old. — Peter Attia
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. — Mariel Hemingway
Absolutely every single one of my actions is intentional. Divine purpose. If your day is full of mindless action, you act without thought. — Andrew Tate
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. — Susan Jacoby
And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.And listened more deeply.Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.Some met their shadows.And the people began to think differently.And the people healed.And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed. — Kitty O'Meara
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem. — Nathaniel Branden
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. — Ayn Rand
It should be of interest to modern Keynesian economists, as well as to the present generation of investors, that although the emperors of Rome frantically tried to 'manage' their economies, they only succeeded in making matters worse. Price and wage controls and legal tender laws were passed, but it was like trying to hold back the tides. Rioting, corruption, lawlessness and a mindless mania for speculation and gambling engulfed the empire like a plague. With money so unreliable and debased, speculation in commodities became far more attractive than producing them. — Saifedean Ammous
The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii. — Isoroku Yamamoto
You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet. — Maya Banks
Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset! — Ann Coulter
The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against. — Thomas Sowell
When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break. — Art Wolfe
Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks. — Naguib Mahfouz
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification. — Farley Mowat
The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart. — Merlin Mann
And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. — Kitty O'Meara
Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them. — Carl Bernstein
Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again. — Ikkyu
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual. — Andy Kaufman
To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius. — Bruce Lee
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. — J. William Fulbright
Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mindlessness, on the other hand, or "no-mindness" as it has been called, is a condition of such complete absorption that there is not vestige of self-awareness. — Philip Kapleau
Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse. — Ilana Mercer
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed. — Gary Lineker
The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination. — Fredric Jameson
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