Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along, when one doesn’t come along very often. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

Earn with your mind, not your time.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing – It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the...

A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Just for the simple fact that you are alive to witness a new day, makes your life amazingly great. With the body, mind, and soul alive and in positive state, all things will surely remain...

The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.

In my mind, it’s more likely we’ll have two Canadians than one. Being on the podium is something I’ve dreamed about my entire life. If my dream doesn’t come true it would be a nice...

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears...

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Would you mind if I used your kitchen sink to take a bath? I have the hygiene of a midget.

Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don’t mind.

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the ‘iconization’ of the life of Jesus: ‘This is a...

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Visualization engages the mind and encourages the body.

You can only be liberated in your mind.Master your mind with positive thoughts.Change your mind, change your actions.

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove...

Justin has always been the better athlete. It’s just a matter of him putting his mind to it.

I’ve changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example,...

There is no safer vault than our minds.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything

Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, integral connectedness and organic unity of all thinking, feeling, and desiring. At the same time, self-reflection reveals that this connected unity...

They had kind of an attack mind-set, and we got back on our heels. A lot of what they got, they got off our errors.

He’s matured. James Blake has grown up, not unlike Roger Federer. He’s slowed down his mind a little bit. He’s playing smarter. He’s a little more in control of his game.

Because you don’t learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.

If we lose the game, we’re not going anywhere. So my mind-set is on one thing, Philadelphia. That’s the way I feel about it.

For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind’s fertility: it contains the mind’s promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not...

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.

Diversion weakens thy mind.