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Quotes About Mind

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
~ Marcel Proust
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
~ Beatrice M. Hinkle
If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
~ Dallas Willard
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.
~ Dalai Lama
When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.
~ Frederick Lenz
But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?
~ Helen Waddell
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth
~ Mary Jo Bang
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
~ Napoleon Hill
Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the things that you desire.
~ Steven Redhead
While a man desires a woman, His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.
~ Dhammapada
Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
~ Lauryn Hill
The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
~ Eric Berne
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
~ Mencius
No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.
~ T. D. Jakes
You are the mental architect of your own destiny
~ Bob Proctor
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
~ Blaise Pascal
Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.
~ Sakyong Mipham