Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Aesop

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

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Sallust

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

Daniel, Peter

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Wright, Steven

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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.