Motivational Quotes

Mind

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Mind

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.