Quotes on Mind
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
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By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
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Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
James Allen
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A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
James Allen
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There is only one thing that will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself. You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him, and, above all else, you may inspire him. But the only thing worth having is that which he gets by his own exertions, and what he gets is in direct proportion to what he puts into it.
Albert Lowell
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The mind is a dutiful servant and will follow the instructions we give it.
Zig Ziglar
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You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
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The most expensive piece of real estate is the six inches between your right and left ear. It’s what you create in that area that determines your wealth. We are only really limited by our mind.
Dolph de Roos
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.
Jim Rohn
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The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.
Napoleon Hill
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Jonas Salk
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Hyman Rickover
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
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The human mind isn't used because we take it for granted. Familiarity breeds contempt. It can do any kind of job we assign to it, but generally speaking we use it for little jobs instead of big important ones.
Earl Nightingale
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.
Samuel Butler
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Unendurable pain brings its own end with it. Chronic pain is always endurable: the intelligence maintains serenity by cutting itself off from the body, the mind remains undiminished. And the parts that pain affects - let them speak for themselves, if they can.
Marcus Aurelius
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The mind without passions is a fortress. No place is more secure. Once we take refuge there we are safe forever. Not to see this is ignorance. To see it and not seek safety means misery.
Marcus Aurelius
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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All of us are apprenticed to the same teacher that the religious institutions originally worked with: reality. Reality-insight says…master the twenty-four hours. Do it well, without self-pity. It is as hard to get the children herded into the car pool and down the road to the bus as it is to chant sutras in the Buddha-hall on a cold morning. One move is not better than the other, each can be quite boring, and they both have the virtuous quality of repetition. Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms. Changing the filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up around the house, washing dishes, checking the dipstick—don't let yourself think these are distracting you from your more serious pursuits. Such a round of chores is not a set of difficulties we hope to escape from so that we may do our "practice" which will put us on a "path"—it is our path.
Gary Snyder
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No matter what you're doing or how well you're doing it, you can benefit from a deeper understanding of how the mind interprets its world using only the clues that somehow find a way into your brain through the holes in your skull.
Scott Adams
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It's not simply a matter of saying: Oh, I'll live in the present. You have to work at it. Catch your mind when it wanders—don't let it get away from you. Discard distracting thoughts.
Ryan Holiday
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