Mind Quotes - Page 7

• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

  John Dryden

  Tyrants

  'Love Triumphant' (1694) act 3, sc. 1 'Song of Jealousy'

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• My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

  Edward Dyer

  Grace, Empires

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• Reading musses up my mind.

  Henry Ford

  Reading, Politics, Mind Reading

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• We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

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  Ram Dass

  Sunshine, Thinking, Tree

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.21, Harmony

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• The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Littles, Little Minds

  "On Horace Walpole" by Thomas B. Macaulay, October, 1833.

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Knowledge, Science

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

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• All the resources we need are in the mind.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Needs, Resources

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Entrepreneur, Association

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 19, 2017

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• The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
  [Lat., Quin corpus onustum
  Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
  Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

  Horace

  Depressing, Yesterday, Excess

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinker, My Thoughts

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• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Peace

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• Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.

  Gayle Forman

  Dream, Sleep, Naps

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.86, Penguin

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• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Reflection, Quality

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• If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
  [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
  Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

  Horace

  Eye, Years, Cures

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• Luck has nothing to do with it.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational, Luck, Body

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• What is matter? Never mind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Matter, Spirituality

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.322, Psychology Press

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