Mind Quotes

• The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Alone

• If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Mind
  • Character

• One disgust, then another - to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • Mind

• ...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Lavished

• To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

  

  Scilla Elworthy
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Worry

• Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.

  

  Kathy Smith
  • Mind
  • Spirit
  • Healthy

• What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

  

  Edward Villella
  • Mind
  • Physicality

• My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

  

  Anna Kavan
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Confused

• Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Might

• Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

  

  Whit Burnett
  • Writing
  • Creative
  • Self

• Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Mind

• Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Prayer
  • Office
  • Imperfect

• True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Joy
  • Brave
  • Laughing

• There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.

  

  Andrew Revkin
  • People
  • Mother
  • Intellectual

• I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Art

• In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mind
  • Father
  • Advice

• Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

  

  Sallust
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Cosmos

• I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you-- because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?

  

  Elizabeth Marie Pope
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Loved

• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • World
  • Winning
  • Impression

• It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

  

  George Eliot
  • Believe
  • Friendship
  • Brief

• The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Murder
  • Error

• A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Passions
  • Trained

• His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Mind
  • Secret
  • Circumference

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