Motivational Quotes

Mind

Is there no way out of the mind?

- Plath, Sylvia

Best Quotes about Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Hare, David

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Crane, George W.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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

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

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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