Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Daniel, Peter

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

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

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Riley, Terry

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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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

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dickens, Charles

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Daniel, Peter

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Loos, Anita

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

Aesop

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch