Quotes About Mental cultivation

One thing you need to remember and understand is that you cannot leave the mind alone. It needs to be watched constantly. If you do not look after your garden it will overgrow with weeds. If you do not watch your mind, defilements will grow and multiply. The mind does not belong to you, but you are responsible for it.

you can now change your inner pattern of thought by dwelling on the idea of success, wealth, and peace of mind. As you busy your mind with these latter concepts, these ideas will gradually seep into your mentality like seeds planted in the ground. As all seeds (thoughts and ideas) grow after their kind, so will your habitual thinking and feeling manifest in prosperity, success, and peace of mind. Wise thought (action) is followed by right action (reaction).

Sow a thought and reap an act; sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a destiny." Everything starts within. Anger

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.

The mind is like a garden," he told me. "You choose what to grow: weeds or flowers.

It is up to you to cultivate your field of mind in order to grow golden crops.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind

Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

Don't imagine that I write just to write, or to publish, or to produce art. I write because this is the final goal, the supreme refinement, the temperamentally illogical refinement, of my cultivation of states of mind and feeling.

Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, The harvest can be either flowers or weeds.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

Considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

El que no cultiva su mente, va derecho a la disgregación de su personalidad.