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Quotes About Mind

Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?
~ Sorin Cerin
Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
~ Hans Bender
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
~ Helen Keller
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.
~ Henri Nouwen
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.
~ Henry Beston
There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
~ Ian Gardner
it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?
~ James Patterson
They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives
~ Jim Perrin
Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.
~ Joe Bageant
I learned that strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
~ John Beecher
For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.
~ Plato, Republic: Books 1-5
Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.
~ Gautama Buddha
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
~ Woody Allen
My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Bowl
Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
~ John Keats
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
~ Warren Bennis
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
~ Bill Hicks
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
~ Patti Smith
It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
~ A. R. Rahman
While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.
~ Peter Agre