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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MIND 1
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947-, American basketball player)
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947-, American basketball player)
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams (1735-1826, American President (2nd))
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Aesop (620-560 BC, Greek fabulist)
I am searching for that which every man seeks -- peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri
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.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
To have a tranquil mind, a clean, calm, conscientious purpose, a few true friends, good health, a happy home, and a sufficient amount saved to guarantee against any embarrassment from want, means that you are wealthy.
Fred Van Amburgh
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong
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.
Bhikshu Ashvaghosha (Renowned playwright and master of Buddhist philosophy)
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973, Anglo-American poet)
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
Meher Baba
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
Meher Baba
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot (1826-1977, British economist, critic)
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.
Richard Bandler (1950-, American therapist, co-founder of NLP)
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay (1907-1978, Scottish theologian, religious writer, broadcaster)
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
Thomas A. Bennett
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.
Itzhak Bentov
The peace is won by accompanying God into the battle.
Eivind Josef Berggrav
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri L. Bergson (1859-1941, French philosopher)
Half this game is 90% mental.
Yogi Berra (1925-, American baseball player)
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.
Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960, British politician)
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 (c. BC 400-, Sanskrit poem incorporated into the Mahabharata)
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 (c. BC 400-, Sanskrit poem incorporated into the Mahabharata)
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904, American author, lawyer)
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Dorothea Brande (American success writer)
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Dorothea Brande (American success writer)
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974, British scientist, author)
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. "
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, American novelist)
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
Lord Buckley
The mind is very subtle, difficult to perceive, and restless. The wise person should guard it, since a guarded mind is conducive to joyfulness.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet)
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929, American sociologist)
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
Alexander Cannon
Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
Richard Carlson (American psychologist, author, speaker)
Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
Richard Carlson (American psychologist, author, speaker)
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American industrialist, philanthropist)
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
I find by experience that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united, and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
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 (c 369 BC-286 BC, Chinese philosopher)
The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
The mind has an extraordinary ability to "see" things that are hoped for.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-, British science fiction writer)
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
Robert Collier (1885-1950, American writer, publisher)
The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.
Henry Courtney
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
Norman Cousins (1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author)
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
Norman Cousins (1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author)
You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George W. Crane
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.
Ralph J. Cudworth (1617-1688, British theologian, philosopher)
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
Peter Daniel
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward De Bono (1933-, Maltan-born American psychologist and writer)
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Thomas Robert Dewar
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)
If you are not mentally prepared, you are not prepares.
Patrick J. Donadio (American speaker, trainer, success coach) Author's website: www.PatrickDonadio.com
If you are not mentally prepared, you are not prepares.
Patrick J. Donadio (American speaker, trainer, success coach) Author's website: www.PatrickDonadio.com
All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to
John Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
George A. Dorsey
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930, British author, "Sherlock Holmes")
Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. Dubay
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
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.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
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.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
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.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910, American founder of the Christian Science Church)
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 (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
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.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
Edward Fairfax
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering.
Francois de Salignac Fenelon (1651-1715, French writer)
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
Marilyn Ferguson (American writer)
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle (1657-1757, Scientist, man of letter)
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.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983, American inventor, designer, poet, philosopher)
A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)
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.
Gunther Grass (1927-, German author)
In back of tranquility lies always conquered unhappiness.
David Grayson (1870-1946, American journalist and writer)
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.
Dr. Jean Hanson (American doctor)
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare (1947-, British playwright, director)
Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.
Willis Harman
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American novelist, short story writer)
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