Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Johnson

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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

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

Steinbeck, John

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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 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 will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Terence

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Plutarch

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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 always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Wright, Steven

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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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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