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Mind

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Descartes, Rene

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

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

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

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

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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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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

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Johnson

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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 incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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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.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell