Monday, 25 June 2018

The Mind - Quotes

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place. - Lao Tzu

If you don't control your mind, someone else will. - John Allston

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear.  If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear. - Unknown

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - Chinese Proverb

If you would make your mind strong, you must give it strong food. - Reuen Thomas

In the world of mind, as in that of matter, we always occupy a position. He who is continually changing his point of view will see more, and that too more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be. - Arthur Helps

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you. - Leon Brown

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. – The Buddha

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free. - Dilgo Rinpoche 

It is our minds that make our lives so homeless. - John O'Donohue

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. - Ovid

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. - Christopher Morley

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs. - Eckhart Tolle

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Keep your mind humble, and open to new ideas. You will learn much more in the process, and continue to develop as a human being. - Unknown

Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. - Joseph Addison

Let the mind be enlarged…to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind. - Francis Bacon

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

Man has amazing potentialities of mind but like treasure hidden in the mountain they are of little use to him until he has cleared away the dense matter that keeps them concealed from himself. - K. Sri Dhammananda

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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