Quotes About Mind

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.