Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Fairfax, Edward

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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 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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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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

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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 was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Johnson

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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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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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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 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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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