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Quotes About Mind

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.
~ Mike Tyson
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
~ Quintilian
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.
~ Richard Reti
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
~ Garry Kasparov
Our life is a creation of our mind.
~ Gautama Buddha
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
The heart of the problem is a problem with the heart.
~ Henry R Brandt
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
~ Wallace Stevens
People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life.
~ Alice Munro
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
~ Andrew Schneider
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The actuality of thought is life.
~ Aristotle
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
~ Helen Keller
The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
~ David Eagleman
Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg