Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Jackson, Andrew

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 mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Sallust

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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