Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Sperry, Roger

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

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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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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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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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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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

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Daniel, Peter

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Auden, W. H.

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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Churchill, Winston

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Steinbeck, John