Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

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.

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

Daniel, Peter

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Dubay, S.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Loos, Anita

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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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

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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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

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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