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

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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

Steinbeck, John

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.