Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Sallust

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Descartes, Rene

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

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

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Cousins, Norman

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Dickens, Charles

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Loos, Anita

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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

Dubay, S.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Crane, George W.

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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