Mind Quotes

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

  Graham Greene

  Sweet, Great Inspirational, Crowns

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• Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Inspirational, Heart, Brain

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• Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.

  Daniel Amen

  Basketball, Believe, Hearing

  Daniel Amen (2008). “Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Enhance Your Brain to Improve Your Work, Love, and Spiritual Life”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Wish, Literature

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  You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

  Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons

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• Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ignorance, Differences, Privacy

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Atheism, Legends

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Confidence, Believe

  Dennis Kimbro, Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice: A Guide to Success for Black Americans”, p.358, Fawcett

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Giving Up

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 30, 2016

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

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Truth, Heart, Path

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  To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment". Book by Lisa Ford, 2007.

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• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Color, Sea, Waves Breaking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• You either control your mind or it controls you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Think Rich Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.226, Penguin

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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