Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Buckley, Lord

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hare, David

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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Breton, Andre

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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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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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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maslow, Abraham H.