Mind Quotes - Page 5

• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

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• If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

  Edward Bernays

  Control Someone, Knowing, People

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p.71), 1928.

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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  Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Loneliness, Illness, States

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.464, Vintage

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• Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

  Deepak Chopra

  Consciousness, Masters

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Ambassadors

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• No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

  Arnold Bennett

  Bears, Recess

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• You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Power Of Now, Delusion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.16, New World Library

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• It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spirited, Contractions, Weariness

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, Mouths, Opening

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• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  1929 Joe Proteus.The Apple Cart, act 1.

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• In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Light, Hair

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• There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

  John Jay Chapman

  Thinking, People

  John Jay Chapman, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1937). “John Jay Chapman and his letters ...”

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• Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sky, Pyramids

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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  Begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life”, Franklincovey

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• Stern men with empires in their brains.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Brain, Empires

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.272

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• The mind alone can not be exiled.
  [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

  Ovid

  Can Not

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• The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Creativity

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• The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fluttering, Capricious, Insects

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only your mind can produce fear.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Fear, Produce

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• What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Character, Angel, Men

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