Quotes About Mind

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

You are what you think about.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

When the prayer becomes the vibration of the mind and self, then we can create a miracle.

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

Sanity is not statistical.

Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you.

Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

Body is not all. Mind is not all. Spirit is not all. All three make the sense.