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 mind can bleed a heart to death.

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

Earn with your mind, not your time.

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart’s memory but love itself?

Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

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.

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...

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

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

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.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

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

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

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

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

An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on,...

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

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very system it has closed around it, and being inside, there is no reason...

has no guts,” doesn’t it?

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.

The adjustments have to be made in your head, … You have to make it in your mind that you are now going to play here [Champions Tour] and that’s it.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem...

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

I don’t mind a crowd’s not laughing; it’s the groans that slow down the show.

Great change outside, is the outcome of greater chang inside-out from your soul and your mind

I am happy because my mind is always filled with happy thoughts.

Our minds are always active. We analyze, reflect, daydream, or dream. There is not a moment during the day or night when we are not thinking. You might say our thinking is ‘unceasing.’ Sometimes we...

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they...

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful...

When there is no presence of self-love, the hunger for attention tends to take over one’s mind

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I’m this hunk.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what’s the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to...