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The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.
-Anon.
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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
-Proverb
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
-John Adams
attributed said during his last illness
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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
-Aesop
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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
-James Allen
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If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
-John Allston
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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
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
-W. H. Auden
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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
-Meher Baba
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
-Walter Bagehot
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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
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
-Thomas A. Bennett
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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
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
-Aneurin Bevan
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-Bhagavad Gita
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When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
-Bhagavad Gita
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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
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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
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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
-Elizabeth Bibesco
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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
-Dorothea Brande
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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
-Dorothea Brande
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