Definition of Midst

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Definition of Midst

Midst

The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.

Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.

In the midst of; amidst.

In the middle.

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Midst Quotations

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Steve Martin

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin

Midst Translations

midst in French is millieux
midst in German is inmitten
midst in Latin is medius
midst in Swedish is mitt i

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