Motivational Quotes

Mind

The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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Best Quotes about Mind

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

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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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

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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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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 mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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

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

Plutarch

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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