Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Churchill, Winston

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Loos, Anita

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn