Inspirations

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

- John Adams

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

- Aesop

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

- Edith Armstrong

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

- Meher Baba

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

- Walter Bagehot

Brains aren't designed to get result, they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

- Richard Bandler

If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

- Itzhak Bentov

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

- Henri L Bergson

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

- Bhagavad Gita

The disunited mind is far from wise, how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

- Bhagavad Gita

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

- Dorothea Brande

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

- Dorothea Brande

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Jacob Bronowski

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

- Buddha

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

- Richard Carlson

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

- Andrew Carnegie

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

- Lord Chesterfield

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united, and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

- Lord Chesterfield

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

- Winston Churchill

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

- Marcus T Cicero

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

- Robert Collier

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.

- Henry Courtney

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

- Norman Cousins

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

- George W Crane

Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

- Will Cuppy

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

- Anthony J D'Angelo

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

- Peter Daniel

If you never change your mind, why have one?

- Edward De Bono

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

- Rene Descartes

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

- Thomas Robert Dewar

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

- Charles Dickens

The Brain is wider than the sky.

- Emily Dickinson

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

- George A Dorsey

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

- William J Durant

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

- Wayne Dyer

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

- Wayne Dyer

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

- Thomas A Edison

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

- Marilyn Ferguson

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages, it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

- Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

- Sigmund Freud

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

- Sigmund Freud

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

- Sigmund Freud

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

- Buckminster Fuller

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

- Gunther Grass

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''

- Edith Hamilton

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

- Doctor Jean Hanson

Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

- Willis Harman

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

- William Hazlitt

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

- Gay Hendricks

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

- Gilbert Highet

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

- Napoleon Hill

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

- Napoleon Hill

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

- Nicholas Hilliard

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

- Horace

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

- Washington Irving

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

- Andrew Jackson

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

- Bruce Jenner

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

- Sir George Jessel

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

- Johnson

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

- Johnson

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

- Gerald W Johnson

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

- Joseph Joubert

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

- John F Kennedy

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

- Martin Luther King Junior

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This is where you will win the battle, in the playhouse of your mind.

- Maxwell Maltz

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

- Maxwell Maltz

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

- Orison Swett Marden

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

- Abraham H Maslow

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

- John Milton

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

- Earl Nightingale

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

- Earl Nightingale

Half this game is 90% mental.

- Danny Ozark

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur, that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

- Maureen Phillips

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

- Plutarch

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

- Proverb

Our minds are like our stomachs, they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

- John Quinton

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

- Sri Ramakrishna

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

- Terry Riley

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

- Anthony Robbins

All the resources we need are in the mind

- Theodore Roosevelt

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune, itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

- Seneca

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

- William Shakespeare

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

- Grace Speare

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

- Edmund Spenser

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

- Roger Sperry

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

- Terence

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

- Thomas Troward

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

- Source Unknown

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

- Source Unknown

The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

- Source Unknown

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

- Source Unknown

The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

- Source Unknown

The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.

- Source Unknown

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

- Source Unknown

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

- Source Unknown

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

- Source Unknown

Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result, the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one, but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

- Source Unknown

What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

- Source Unknown

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

- Source Unknown

Mind moves matter.

- Virgil

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

- Lyall Watson

Mind is the great lever of all things.

- Daniel Webster

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

- Colin Wilson

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

- Wayne Dyer

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

- Sidney Madwed

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 12: Taking Care of Your Body

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Brains aren't designed to get result, they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

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

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

The disunited mind is far from wise, how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united, and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

The Brain is wider than the sky.

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages, it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

This is where you will win the battle, in the playhouse of your mind.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.