Mind Quotes

“Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Humanity's problem lies in the misuse of the mind only.
All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly.”
― Nisargadatta, I am that

“If Mind is all, renounce the hope for bliss;
If Mind is all, renounce the hope for Truth.
[Savitri]”
― Sri Aurobindo

“The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.”
― Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

“Learn to embrace the peace and quiet in your mind. Don’t throw yourself into a situation that caused you frustration and anger weeks ago. Let it go. Today you have calm and today you should enjoy it.”
― Ron Baratono

“We show our animal nature by not living for the future, and our human nature by not living in the present.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real.”
― Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

“Solitude is mental growth”
― Allison Mierop

“Sometimes a goal in life we’re striving for seems dim or becomes unreachable. Direction has suddenly changed so fast we’re left with aimless thoughts and confusion. Don’t be troubled! You’ve proved to yourself that you have the drive. Your new direction will come with patience. Each of us needs time to rest our heart and mind before we reach the next mountain.”
― Ron Baratono, Our Reflections

“Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Addresses on Bhakti Yoga

“Not diminishing the Way by the mind,
not trying to help the divine by means of the human.”
― Thomas Cleary, The Taoist Classics, Volume One: The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary

“You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“If your mind is clear and at peace, then your path leads to joy and happiness. However, if your mind is cluttered and frantic, then your path leads to suffering and frustration.”
― J.R. Incer

“Such beautiful minds. Yet such silence and darkness around them.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“Get back to your prayers and to meditating again. THE SOUL KNOWS THINGS THE MIND HAS NEVER LEARNED.”
― Marjory Sheba

“She closed her eyes. "God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, of love, and of a sound mind." The verse resounded in her mind. Part of her knew that one of the best ways to overcome any fear was to face it head on and walk through it, instead of trying to run away from it. Once she persevered and made it to the other side, the fear would be less menacing and less controlling. It was just the process of getting there that was so difficult.”
― Jody Hedlund, Undaunted Hope

“Smile to hide the darkness of your thoughts.”
― Kayla Krantz, When Night Falls: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems

“With Having, your attention is constantly on your inner voice, so that little bit of comfort and warmth in your mind will grow as your feelings become more clear.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich

“When you think, I’m not comfortable, your brain only hears comfortable, but if you think, I’m annoyed, then only annoyed is imprinted. When you hear ‘I don’t feel comfortable,’ it means that that person’s general, default state of mind is comfort.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich

“Unconscious minds create flows of fortune that benefit us and that we can follow. The world of fortune isn’t like a weather forecast that tells you whether rain will come or not. If we’ve sowed the seeds of good fortune in our unconscious minds, we’ll harvest their fruit when the time comes without fail.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich

“The mind says everyone is temporary but the heart fills you with the hope that someone will prove your mind wrong.”
― Nitya Prakash

“With remembering, there is rebuilding. And that is the thing about memory: it's a home constantly under reconstruction, not a video playing on a loop.”
― Jules Montague, Lost and Found: Memory, Identity and Who We Become When We're No Longer Ourselves

“You can Shine in the dark; but, how? Just Light up the darkness as the Light you are!”
― Edwin J. Chisom

“Humanity's problem lies in this misuse of the mind only.
All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Zen is forced to resort to negation because of our innate ignorance (avidya), which tenaciously clings to the mind as wet clothes do to the body. 'Ignorance' is all very well as far as it goes, but it must not go out of its proper sphere. 'Ignorance' is another name for logical dualism. White is snow and black is the raven. But these belong to the world and its ignorant way of talking. If we want to get to the very truth of things, we must see them from the point where this world has not yet been created, where the consciousness of this and that has not yet been awakened and where the mind is absorbed in its own identity, that is, in its serenity and emptiness. This is a world of negations but leading to a higher and absolute affirmation--an affirmation in the midst of negations. Snow is not white, the raven is not black, yet each in itself is white or black. This is where our everyday language fails to convey the exact meaning as conceived by Zen.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“You can keep your body, but if you give away your mind, you lose everything.”
― Andrew Davenport

“Failing is not an option, and falling either. But to get up after a fall otherwise is what's in a mind of a winner!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Sarai couldn't even remember what her own had been like, back before she had made of it the zoo of terrors it was now - her own mind a place she was afraid to be caught out in after dark.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“The unconscious mind is open terrain - no walls or barriers, for better or worse. Thoughts and feelings are free to wander, like characters leaving their books to taste life in other stories. Terrors roam, and so do yearnings. Secrets are turned out like pockets, and old memories meet new.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“I'm writing a story in my journal, and I'm searching for a true voice. I make my way through layers of acquired voices, silly voices, sententious voices, voices that are too cool and too overheated. Then they all quiet down, and I reach what I'm searching for: silence.”
― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language