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

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crane, George W.

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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

Wright, Steven

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 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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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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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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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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