200+ Quotes About the Mind
Quotes About the Mind
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Quotes, learnings, teachings and philosophy from some of the worlds greatest thinkers to help understand and inspire our thoughts and mind.
Over 200 quotes about the mind including inspirational quotes, quotes from Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru & Buddha and quotes from The Mental Wellbeing 5 interviews below.
89 Inspirational Quotes About the Mind
1. "You either control your mind or it controls you."
Napoleon Hill
2. “None but ourselves can free our minds.”
Bob Marley
3. “Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.”
Napoleon Hill
4. "We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”
Anthony Hopkins
5. "What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."
Wayne Dyer
6. “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”
Plato
7. "Fortune favors the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
8. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
Napoleon Hill
9. “Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission..”
Arnold Bennett
10. “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Lao Tzu
11. “Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.”
Wayne Dyer
12. “Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.”
Tim Ferriss
13. “You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”
George Michael
14. “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
15. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
16. "The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
John Milton
17. "If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow."
Sidney Madwed
18. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch
19. "Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about."
Stephen Richards
20. "She knew the power of her mind and so programmed it for success."
Carrie Green
21. "The end of the war with the mind is the end of war."
Byron Katie
22. “All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.”
Alan Cohen
23. "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind."
Joyce Meyer
24. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.”
Dalai Lama
25. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
Sigmund Freud
26. "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.”
Kevin Gates
28. "In your hands will be placed the exact results of your thoughts; you will receive that which you earn, no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fail, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your wisdom, desire, as great as your dominant aspiration."
James Allen
29. “Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
30. “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
Ernest Hemmingway
31. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.”
Bruce Lee
32. “Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
Daphne du Maurier
33. "The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
34. "You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be."
Marianne Williamson
35. “60% of the human body may be made of water, but over 80% of the human mind is made of stories.”
François Chollet
36. "It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think."
Gerald G. Jampolsky
37. "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Rene Descartes
38. "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare
39. "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Carl Jung
40. “Every thought we think is creating our future.”
Louise Hay
41. "I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change."
Bob Dylan
42. “A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”
Leonardo Di Caprio
43. “For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.”
Larry Eisenberg
44. "The mind reflects the world, and the world reflects the mind"
James Pierce
45. “It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.”
Leon Brown
46. “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
Socrates
47. “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”
Ronnie Lott
48. “The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.”
Temple Grandin
49. “Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”
Walt Disney
50. “O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.”
Napoleon Hill
52. “To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”
Alan Watts
53. "I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy."
Jim Rohn
54. "If you never change your mind, why have one?"
Edward De Bono
55. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”
Earl Nightingale
56. “There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.”
Swami Vivekananda
57. “A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”
Napoleon Hill
58. "The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces. "
Robert Greene
59. “The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.”
Warren Buffett
60. “The sky is not the limit. Your mind is.”
Marilyn Monroe
61. "Is it the world that’s busy, or my mind?"
Haemin Sunim
62. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”
Walt Disney
63. “Your thoughts are seeds that you plant.”
Wayne Dyer
64. “If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.”
Arianna Huffington
65. “Your genes don't control your life as much as your mind and thoughts do.”
Carmen Jacob
66. "The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
William James
67. “It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
Albert Einstein
68. "Few men come to realize that their entire life has been lived inside their mind.
Kapil Gupta
69. “Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else."
George Orwell
70. “I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”
Mahatma Gandhi
71. "Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems."
Lama Yeshe
72. “The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind."
Osho
73. “The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance."
Naval Ravikant
74. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
Aristotle
75. “Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”
Tony Robbins
76. "You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."
Darwin P. Kingsley
77. “As you think, so shall you become.”
Bruce Lee
78. "No technique of the mind will free you from the mind.”
Naval Ravikant
79. "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
James Allen
80. "Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind."
Osho
81. “The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
John F Kennedy
82. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind..”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
Mahatma Gandhi
84. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
85. “We are what we believe we are.”
Anonymous
86. “People are just as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
87. “A clear mind is a happy heart.”
Thibaut
88. “Every thought we think is creating our future.”
Louise Hay
89. “When you become the master of your mind, you are master of everything.”
Swami Satchidananda
26 Eckhart Tolle Quotes About the Mind
1. "All problems are illusions of the mind."
Eckhart Tolle
2. “People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
3. “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
Eckhart Tolle
4. “To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.”
Eckhart Tolle
5. “For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.”
Eckhart Tolle
6. “Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it.”
Eckhart Tolle
6. “The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.”
Eckhart Tolle
7. “Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy.”
Eckhart Tolle
8. “Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.”
Eckhart Tolle
9. “Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind”
Eckhart Tolle
10. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
Eckhart Tolle
11. “All that is required to become free of the ego is to be aware of it, since awareness and ego are incompatible.”
Eckhart Tolle
12. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”
Eckhart Tolle
13. “You are not your mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
14. “Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become “I.”
Eckhart Tolle
15. "Create a gap of no mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation."
Eckhart Tolle
16. “When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.”
Eckhart Tolle
17. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
Eckhart Tolle
18. “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
Eckhart Tolle
19. “To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation”
Eckhart Tolle
20. “The ego says, I shouldn’t have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.”
Eckhart Tolle
21. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
22. “All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
23. “The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.”
Eckhart Tolle
24. “All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no “I” except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.”
Eckhart Tolle
25. “We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”
Eckhart Tolle
26. “Knowing yourself is to be rooted in being, instead of lost in your mind."
Eckhart Tolle
18 Sadhguru Quotes About the Mind
1. "As people get more educated and complex in their minds, their ability to suffer increases, because they can create a greater variety of sufferings."
Sadhguru
2. "Meditation is the only freedom as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind."
Sadhguru
3. "Thoughts and emotions come from the same source. Thoughts are the dry expressions of the mind, emotions are juicy."
Sadhguru
4. "In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective."
Sadhguru
5. "Your mind is not your own. It is a complex amalgamation of all kinds of influences. The more you are identified with it, the further away you are from yourself."
Sadhguru
6. "If you use your mind as a memory bank, the past will repeat itself in cycles. If your mind becomes pure attention, you will know everything that is worth knowing."
Sadhguru
7. "External circumstances can only cause you physical pain. Suffering is created in your mind."
Sadhguru
8. "When you become free from the meanness of the mind, an indiscriminate sense of love and inclusion arises."
Sadhguru
9. "Fear, anger, resentment, and stress are poisons you create in your mind. If you take charge of your mind, you can create a chemistry of blissfulness."
Sadhguru
10. "If you cannot keep your mind peaceful, how can the world be peaceful? The conflicts and violence in the world are just a manifestation of the human mind."
Sadhguru
11. "The moment you transcend the limitations of your logical mind, there is no such thing as time and space"
Sadhguru
12. "Only those who keep the garbage of their minds aside are truly capable of love and compassion."
Sadhguru
13. "If you do not mess your mind, you will naturally be joyful."
Sadhguru
14. "I don’t have a mindset. I have an intelligence that is not set but fluid."
Sadhguru
15. "When your mind becomes still, your intelligence explodes."
Sadhguru
16. "Nothing in existence is ever repeated - no two blades of grass are the same. Everything is fresh and unique - only the mind is in constant repetition.."
Sadhguru
17. "Only those who keep the garbage of their minds aside are truly capable of love and compassion."
Sadhguru
18. "The Divine is insane. Just look at the human beings, the grasshoppers, the elephants, and the whole cosmos - could a sane mind be capable of all this?"
Sadhguru
25 Buddha Quotes About the Mind
1. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."
Buddha
2. "The one who conquers himself, the victor over his own mind, achieves a conquest that can never be undone, a victory greater than that of the mightiest warriors."
Buddha
3. "You have two choices: to control your mind or let your mind control you."
Buddha
4. “There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires."
BUDDHA
5. "To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.”"
BUDDha
6. “A disciplined mind brings happiness.”
BUDDHA
7. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
BUDDHA
8. “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
BUDDHA
9. “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
BUDDHA
10. “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
BUDDHA
11. “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
BUDDHA
12. “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
BUDDHA
13. “If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”
BUDDHA
14. "Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.”
BUDDHA
15. “There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
BUDDHA
16. “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.”
BUDDHA
17. “If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”
BUDDHA
18. “Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
BUDDHA
19. “If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.”
BUDDHA
20. “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
BUDDHA
21. “Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!”
BUDDHA
22. “It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
BUDDHA
23. “Your own self is your master; who else could be? With yourself well controlled, you gain a master very hard to find.”
BUDDHA
24. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
BUDDHA
25. “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
BUDDHA
Quotes From the Mental Wellbeing 5 Interviews
1. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
C.S. Lewis
2. “Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, create, trust, grow and heal”
Elena Katsandreas
3.. “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Mark Twain
4. “Shy souls… you are the quiet storm this world desperately needs.”
Strong Sensitive Souls Blog
5. “What if I fall?”
“Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”
“Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”
J. M. Barrie
6. ‘I trust myself; I trust life. Everything is unfolding in perfect timing’.
Alex Grace
7. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
A. A. Milne
8. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
Swami Vivekananda
9. “We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
Robert Frost
10. “You are not your thoughts”
11. "Life is wiggly"
Dr. Dominique Thompson
12. “Don’t compete, don’t compare, and don’t judge.”
Nyle Beck
13. “I love you, just the way you are!”
Kari Joys
14. “Take it day by day”
Aysha Mahmood
15. “Don’t sweat the small stuff.”
Dr. Donna Poppendieck
16. “May Gratitude Guide You”
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
17. "This Too Shall Pass."
18. “Be grateful and reflect on the moments in life. Moments matter."
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
19. "There’s no health without mental health."
David Satcher
20. “Fall Down 7 times, Stand Up 8”
Japanese Proverb
21. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
22. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”
John Green
23. “For men in general judge more by the eyes than by the hands, for everyone can see but very few have to feel.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
24. “Crazy how your spirit knows something is off before you physically see it”
Unknown
25. "I’m not a great fan of hope. I’m a bigger fan of killing hope."
Sally Baker
26. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor E. Frankl
27. “If not now when?”
Dr. Roshni Beeharry
28. “The love of your fate.”
Nietzsche
29. "Re-examine all you have been told
in school or church or in any book,
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul;
And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
in school or church or in any book,
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul;
And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition.
30. "You’ve got to learn to leave the table
When love’s no longer being served."
When love’s no longer being served."
Nina Simone, from You’ve Got To Learn, 1965.
31. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”
Louisa May Alcott
32. “Well-being leads to welldoing”
Wellness project in Kenya
33. “The expectation that you can be immersed in suffering and loss on a daily basis and not be impacted by it is thinking you can walk through water and not get wet”.
Rachel Remen
34. ‘You did then what you knew how to do, and know that you know better, you do better
Maya Angelou
35. "Man plans, God laughs"
Yiddish Proverb
36. “Be Strong & Courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged….”
Támara Hill - Joshua 19
37. "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget"
Michel de Montaigne
38. "Do Nothing – when Nothing Works."
Kathy Kolbe
39. “This too, shall pass.”
2nd Mention in the mental wellbeing 5 Interviews
40. “This too shall pass.”
3rd Mention in the mental wellbeing 5 Interviews
41. "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran
42. “Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it, take with you your all.”
Khalil Gibran
43. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
44. “Toto,…we’re not in Kansas anymore”
Dorothy
45. “Promise me you’ll always remember — you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Winnie the Pooh
46. "Everything we do is 80% psychological and only 20% skill”
Tony Robbins
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