108 quotes
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“The mind must always be in the state of flowing for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted”
— Takuan Soho
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
— Mary Shelley
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
— Socrates
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
— Virginia Woolf
“You are like a captain navigating a ship. You must give the right orders.”
— Joseph Murphy
“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.”
— Robin Sharma
“She is a friend of my mind she gather me man the pieces I am she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order”
— Toni Morrison
“A wandering mind is a sign that something is wrong with our prayer”
— Evagrius Ponticus
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Buddha
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most”
— John Ruskin
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”
— Mortimer Adler
“Limits are created in the mind.”
— Anonymous
“If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”
— Bob Proctor
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
— René Descartes
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.”
— John Locke
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
— Gautama Buddha
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The mind should be nowhere in particular let it fill the whole body”
“Minds create the abyss and hearts cross it”
— Huang Po
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness is a state of mind.”
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
— Laozi
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
— Samuel Johnson
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions for wonder has expanded it”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
— Horace
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
— Lao Tzu
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude”
— Nikola Tesla
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The mind is a muscle and creativity keeps it strong”
— Yvonne Rainer
“Thy heart is the light of this world. Do not cover it with thy mind.”
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
— Cicero
“Beauty is the mystery of life it is not in the eye it is in my mind”
— Agnes Martin
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled with kindness”
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
— William Dement
“Let the mind come as it wants do not go with it the mind will settle by itself”
— Papaji
“The mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”
— Vyasa
“Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.”
— Rhonda Byrne
“There is no birthright more precious than peace of mind and no inheritance more valuable than the ability to find it.”
— Annie Besant
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed and wonder keeps the mind engaged”
— Wendell Berry
“I have learned over the years that when one mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
“The universe shows evidence of the operations of mind on three levels and each level fills us with new wonder”
— Freeman Dyson
“All of the body is in the mind but not all of the mind is in the body”
— Swami Rama
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation. Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Use your mind for peace.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind because wonder fuels it endlessly with fresh curiosity”
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
— Gerry Spence
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
— Unknown
“You have power over your mind not outside events realize this and you will find strength”
“The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The essence of mind is brilliant clarity and it is aware”
— Tulku Urgyen
“Life isnt as serious as the mind makes it out to be and healing begins when we lighten our grip on thoughts”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Music is the medicine of the mind.”
— John Logan
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
— David Hume
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.”
“The mind is a bundle of thoughts and thoughts arise because there is the thinker”
— Ramana Maharshi
“When the world is falling apart around you the first thing you do is get your own mind right”
— Man Haron Monis
“No matter what is happening no matter what is going on around you your mind can be cool and at ease”
— Tenzin Palmo
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
— Seneca
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
— William Shakespeare
“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
— Laurence Sterne
“What we think, we become.”
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Freedom is in your mind and healing begins when you choose to use it”
— Edith Eger
“You are not your mind you are the awareness behind the thoughts”
“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”
“If you use your mind to study reality you wont understand either your mind or reality”
— Bodhidharma
“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with another”
— George Santayana
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
“Unborn Buddha mind is the most simple and direct truth”
— Bankei
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
— Thomas Paine
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled by family.”
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