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All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ( "Camera obscura of the mind" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting stuck into that net.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division—a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year
—  only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year!
When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes you on a downwards spiral, while the other upwards. One breeds toxic patterns, the other awareness. The choice is yours.
— Vironika Tugaleva
It’s easy to put the links between the increases in mental illness, depression, ADHD, and the like, with the speed of the modern world. People never get the chance to do nothing, or when they do, they lack the control to prevent their mind from racing off in a thousand different directions. So much so that their doing nothing becomes a thousand different things and the thousand different things becomes stress, anxiety, worry and fear. Left untreated these simple everyday things become well entrenched in our psyches and start to dominate our lives. We have a chronic addiction with doing and we love to use our busyness as a stamp of our hard work and hectic lives and we get stuck in this busy trap of always doing.
— Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
We live in a world where it is completely the norm to worry about what we put in our bodies but worry very little about what we throw in our minds. We think a hamburger is bad but a celebrity gossip magazine is completely harmless. As children you never hear “don’t put that garbage in your mind,” but for our body counterpart it is common thread. There is something very wrong with this scenario.
— Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point!
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.
— Kenan Malik
When you finally decide to face all your fears, then be assured that success is knocking at your door.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.
— Larry McMurtry
How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
The superb use the mind as mirror, not welcoming nor rejecting, reflect without hiding, and triumph without harming. (Chuang Tzu)
— Sung Yee Poon, FREE EASY MIND in Conflicts. Stress.Loss
Tisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognita
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.
— Indiana Lang
Mind was crafted to preserve some and forget some. We have to decide when to choose delete button.
— Shikha Kaul
Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely.
— David Cuschieri
The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
— Marcus Aurelius
First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Close your eyes, imagine yourself in the world of your dreams, imagine everything you ever wanted, live that moment, get the feel of it. Once you've lived that moment in your mind fully, open your eyes and get started with work, work as hard as possible, do all that it takes to live that moment in real. Just do it, it's possible.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Every major outward change must first begin in the mind.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every criminal has a good mind conquered by the devil
— Munia Khan
For us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people.The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.
— Sunday Adelaja
The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.
— Steven Magee
Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
By reading great stories, you will renew your mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not blame anyone if at last you don’t succeed because, your brain is solely responsible for this since this is where every seed of resolution will germinate.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey
— Idries Shah, The Commanding Self
Every major outward change must first begin in the mind .So for us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people. The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.
— Sunday Adelaja
The word of God renewed my mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.
— Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
The power of the mind is the strength of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Renew your mind with positive thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
An unsolved problem bothers one's mind, just as a small stone in the shoe,until an idea for solving the problem comes to mind.
— Eraldo Banovac
Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make
— Mohit Dhaka
Your mind is well-spring of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t allow anyone to pollute your mind with negative thoughts and negative words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Are you there? If your mind is not there, you are not there! You are wherever your mind is wandering!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.
— Criss Jami, Healology
A conditioned mind is never a free mind.
— Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.
— Ancient Chinese Proverb
I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.
— Patti Smith, M Train
Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.
— Idries Shah, Observations
I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Your EYES not only see everything around you AS IS, but also PROJECT what you wish look in this world!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.You shout the word—mind, mind, mind—over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice.
— Toni Morrison, A Mercy
Loud actions, small people, loud voice, small mouths, loud world, small minds.
— Mussadiq Abdul Rahim
Never give a conscious meaning to your unconscious acts!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Imagination is center of spiritual force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
By reading, we will know the minds of great soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it's important to know what's right and what's wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The path’s been set ,The way has been pointed out to me,I need strength to walk, and make the first step,I need the light to see, and wisdom to discern,I need Evil and God, The path’s been set for me to follow,The way has been pointed out to me,I need courage, and hope, Time to unleash the beast, and set the dragon free,Time to rise and defy Death, Time to defeat Satan, and destroy God,Time for war and violence, time to love and kill,Time to tame the demons of the mind,Time to cut the angel’s wingsTime to show your fangs and claws to the Devil,I need courage, I need hope,I need strength to slit the devil's throat Give me Satan, Give me God,Give me death, give me life,The path is been set for me to follow
— Quetzal
Coming out of the TunnelI am bursting with a new found feeling of my own existence.Strong and powerful frequencies.My mind is wandering to wide open fields and long-forgotten lands with limitless possibilities. I am not quite there yet.Holding still in anticipation,I don’t want to miss hearing my inner voice – soft and deep.With me are friendly skies on rainy days and my life is getting warmer.
— Anna Asche
Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Imagination is a divine mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Mechanics of Mind: I feel the greatest source of despair stems not from what we do on a daily basis, but the pace at which our mind thinks vis-a-vis our progression in real life that matters - the greater the gap the more the despair!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Mechanics of Mind: Remember the nature of the mind - Mind is never where you are, it is always somewhere else!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Through dreams and ideas we are seduced to go back to particular places and instances of our past. In the course of the years, these singular moments and spaces of our history very often receive then another color and dimension. Our mind tries however to tame and keep in control the phantoms of times past. If not so, our memory can be subject to an irreversible mutilation. ( "The mutilated memory" )
— Erik Pevernagie
But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites
—  hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.
Fear is what created the monster in the room, and in order to overcome the many problems and enslavements that we have today, it is not about getting rid of the monster, but about getting rid of the fear.
— Evita Ochel
[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity
Consider your body and mind as a machine that runs a program
—  then be aware of who is writing the program you are running.
The mind was rarely a rational thing when it came to the dark or the unknown.
— Pooja Perumal, Tap, Tap, Tap 'Til Halloween Comes
We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Thomas had no concept of time as he went through the Changing.It started much like his first memory of the Box—dark and cold. But this time he had no sensation of anything touching his feet or body. He floated in emptiness, stared into a void of black. He saw nothing, heard nothing, smelled nothing. It was as if someone had stolen his five senses, leaving him in a vacuum.Time stretched on. And on. Fear turned into curiosity, which turned into boredom.Finally, after an interminable wait, things began to change.A distant wind picked up, unfelt but heard. Then a swirling mist of whiteness appeared far in the distance—a spinning tornado of smoke that formed into a long funnel, stretching out until he could see neither the top nor the bottom of the white whirlwind. He felt the gales then, sucking into the cyclone so that it blew past him from behind, ripping at his clothes and hair like they were shredded flags caught in a storm.The tower of thick mist began to move toward him—or he was moving toward it, he couldn’t tell—increasing its speed at an alarming rate. Where seconds before he’d been able to see the distinct form of the funnel, he now could see only a flat expanse of white.And then it consumed him; he felt his mind taken by the mist, felt memories flood into his thoughts.Everything else turned into pain.
— James Dashner, The Maze Runner
Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Take notice of what thoughts you fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
One 'beautiful-mind' indeed weighs heavy over thousand creations of natureand that is why from Socrates to Kabir, all hold such great importance.
— Deep Trivedi, The Pulse of Wisdom
I am not a prisoner to be locked up in people's ideologies, I am not a criminal to be locked up in your mind, I am a free spirit and I make no apologies for it
— Evy Michaels
A book a day keeps the mind happy and gay!
— Sima Mittal
The battle is not with the human flesh, but the mind.
— Goitsemang Mvula
Self-creative mind is divine force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I recall the Scriptures into my mind, therefore, I have hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When you give yourself fully with your mind and body to a mission, you can get more than 100% returns.
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or anything that you think, speak, or do, mindfulness has the power to align you with expressing your highest Self, for your personal and our collective highest good.Via mindfulness we can make the choices today, that will pre-pave the desired outcomes for all of our tomorrows. Via mindfulness we put ourselves in the flow of life, where life is no longer a series of "good" and "bad" moments, but about living with ease, contentment, wellbeing, and inner peace. Ultimately mindfulness requires action, with the first step being to make mindfulness a priority in your life.
— Evita Ochel
I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up millionaires from members of my church
— Sunday Adelaja
The moment you become conscious of your unconscious state, you’re instantly transformed!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has abandoned their weary mind. Life has boundlessly given them material welfare, which has fully spoiled them in the end. No energy for longing has been left, as they have reached a twilight zone. The twilight of desire. ( "Twilight of desire" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict ‘It is.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don’t know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
— Ayn Rand
So much time spent believingwe had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to hauntingourselves.
— D.J. MacLennan, Frozen to Life: A Personal Mortality Experiment
You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Any feeling, emotion or impulse that originates from the 'mind' can never be suppressed.
— Deep Trivedi
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say ‘It is,’ you are refusing to say ‘I am.’ By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: ‘Who am I to know?’- he is declaring: ‘Who am I to live?
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
when there is no sound mind in the society people's thinking and their decisions, don’t always follow the natural flow of logic, because the society and the culture of the land has polluted the minds of ordinary people
— Sunday Adelaja
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
It is easier to deal with one with an empty bank account than with one, with a broke mind.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.
— Theodore Dalrymple
lack of sound mind and judgment – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God
— Sunday Adelaja
If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis
— Sunday Adelaja
Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting. But the mandate is clear, his nature must be reflected on the earth. If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth. If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis. If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe. If fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society
— Sunday Adelaja
when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement
— Sunday Adelaja
Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life’s endeavour.
— Sunday Adelaja
I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.
— Jeff Hawkins
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society don’t think straight. They are perverted in their thoughts
— Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing either ' good or bad ' but ' thinking ' makes it so. It is the "perception" that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.Erik pevernagie - ("Is that all there is ?")
— Erik Pevernagie
Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains. ( " Labyrinth of the mind " )
— Erik Pevernagie
Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
— Osho
Don't ever think of bad things that could happen, and you'll have a better chance of them never happening. Don't ever think about doing something bad to someone, because depending on the intensity of your mind waves, something bad could really happen to them. Think love. Be love. Breathe only love, and love you shall be. When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking
—  to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality
Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders’ attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!
— Marie Corelli
Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness—to value the failure of your values—is an insolent negation of morality.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life as of no value. Do they tell you that the purpose of morality is to curb man’s instinct of self-preservation? It is for the purpose of self-preservation that man needs a code of morality. The only man who desires to be moral is the man who desires to live.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Generally, in English, one way in which we describe an insane person is like this: "He is out of his mind." See, if you were out of your mind, would you be insane? Insanity is of the mind always, isn't it? Only if you are in the mind you can be insane. If you are out of your mind, you will be perfectly sane; you will become like a Mansur, or a Jesus or someone who is beyond other people's understanding. Others may think they are insane, but they are the only few sane people that have happened on the planet.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his reason, his senses tell him only that something is, but what it is must be learned by his mind.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Was it worth while, he thought, to be so wise, if wisdom made one at times so sad? Was it well to sacrifice Faith for Fact, when Faith was so warm and Fact so cold? Was it better to be a dreamer of things possible, or a worker-out of things positive? And how much was positive, after all, and how much possible? He balanced the question lightly with himself. It was like a discord in the music of his mind, and disturbed his peace.
— Marie Corelli, The Soul of Lilith
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth—and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man’s mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
When character speaks, many minds listen.
what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it?
— Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD
— Rose De Matta
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice.A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
— Bodhidharma
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
— Bodhidharma
Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.
— Evita Ochel
Quantum physics findings show that consciousness itself created order - or indeed in some way created the world - this suggested much more capacity in the human being than was currently understood. It also suggested some revolutionary notions about humans in relation to their world and the relation between all living things. What they were asking was how far our bodies extended. Did they end with what we always thought of as our own isolated persona, or ‘extend out’ so that the demarcation between us and our world was less clear-cut? Did living consciousness possess some quantum field like properties, enabling it to extend its influence out into the world? If so, was it possible to do more than simply observe? How strong was our influence? It was only a small step in logic to conclude that in our act of participation as an observer in the quantum world, we might also be an influencer, a creator. Did we not only stop the butterfly at a certain point in its flight, but also influence the path it will take - nudging it in a particular direction?This explains action at a distance, what scientists call non locality. The theory that two subatomic particles once in close proximity seemingly communicate over any distance after they are separated.
— Lynne McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If the pull of the moon can disturb the ocean, why can’t the pull of planets cause a disturbance in the mind of creatures like us.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
For a cheerful mind, sun never sets; for a cheerless mind, sun never rises!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. ‘Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep, 'virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it. ‘Value’ presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? 'Value’ presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The anti-mind is the anti-life.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires...Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being—not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement—not survival at any price, since there’s only one price that pays for man’s survival: reason.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good
—  all that which destroys it is the evil.
There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man’s life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is your goal, you must choose your actions and values by the standard of that which is proper to man—for the purpose of preserving, fulfilling and enjoying the irreplaceable value which is your life.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
We do not perceive what is "out ther," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the elesctrical status of neurons or the physical or the chemical status of the receptors. The outside world is never taken into our consciousness. The outside world is rather our own creation, psychologically synthesized from the mass of sensations that envelope us. In many respects, the ultimate question that perception must ask was stated by John Stuart Mill in 1865. He asked, "What is it we mean, or what is it which leads us to say, that the objects we perceive are external to us, and not a part of our own thoughts?" That remains, perhaps, the ultimate, unresolved perceptual puzzle.
— Stanley Coren
We do not perceive what is "out there," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the electrical status of neurons or the physical or the chemical status of the receptors. The outside world is never taken into our consciousness. The outside world is rather our own creation, psychologically synthesized from the mass of sensations that envelope us. In many respects, the ultimate question that perception must ask was stated by John Stuart Mill in 1865. He asked, "What is it we mean, or what is it which leads us to say, that the objects we perceive are external to us, and not a part of our own thoughts?" That remains, perhaps, the ultimate, unresolved perceptual puzzle.
— Stanley Coren, Sensation and Perception
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life.
— Evita Ochel
Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
— Evita Ochel
A limited mind will have a limited world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A mind that opens its door to fears, doubts, grudges, jealousy and anger, compromises its peace in return.
Our Thoughts have life of its own: Their Birth, Influence and Death happens at our Mind level
— gaurav rao
It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the world’s doctrines, the accumulated evil of centuries—to remain human, since the human is the rational.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Universe is expanding to infinity without a center in space. How come humans claim a direction to their life?
— Vishwanath S J
Take a closer look at the word "Change". You never "Changed", instead, you were 'Manipulated' by illusion.
— Vishwanath S J
To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!
— Vishwanath S J
It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Time is a strange phenomenon that understands the physics of our world, but never the chemistry of it
— Vishwanath S J
The earth is a mosaic, and most fail to notice the gossamer tesserae floating down from the realm of the mind that form its images of beauty and horror.
— Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
Time has witnessed events even before it's own birth without energy.
— Vishwanath S J
An answer gone unanswered will be answered in a parallel universe. Existence is classified in unrecorded dimensions.
— Vishwanath S J
Time, as such doesn't travel! It's the paradox & uncertainty inside you that makes it travel.
— Vishwanath S J
The mystery in "Eyes of your Eyes" can never be found in the interstellar space unless you encounter timelessness.
— Vishwanath S J
Or… maybe I’m not going crazy. “Maybe I’m some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I’m just breaking down.I’m not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. “You’re not in your right mind, dear,” he says. “No, no, no, you’re not.”And then——Silence.Dad fades away. The reverie chair disappears.There’s just blackness. I remember then that I am in the reverie of something dead. Whatever that thing was, it was dead.And, just as I’m starting to wonder if, perhaps, I have died, too, I see a light, far away in the corner of the dreamscape. The light isn’t soft; it’s not glowing. It crackles like silent lightning, burning with electricity, sparks flying out and fizzling in the dark.I don’t know why—it makes no sense, the way dreams often don’t—but I want to touch the light.So I do.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Time is a creation of vague mind used to describe an unknown dimension in the 3D world.
— Vishwanath S J
Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.
— Vishwanath S J
Through all the ages the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiter—every form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation—every form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squad—have been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection. Yet only to the extent to which—in chains, in dungeons, in hidden corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders—some men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able to survive.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If you can successfully embrace the Anti-Matter version of yourself, Time would cease to exist for You. You are God!
— Vishwanath S J
Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Time is an encoded pattern of fabric woven with information & energy.
— Vishwanath S J
Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A creative design to everything demands a Time Keeper to exist. It was born out from the womb of primordial time!
— Vishwanath S J
The source of work? Man’s mind...man’s reasoning mind.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Explore, Dream & Discover are 3 secrets which the time traveler is unaware. They demystify as the journey advances!
— Vishwanath S J
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Every strict progression of an uncertain event is cease of movement in time and a birth of new space.
— Vishwanath S J
Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.
— Vishwanath S J
As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, I’m discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large enough to fit not just our own world, but every possibility and impossibility beyond it. Once I quit thinking of it as being forced into the laws of physics, it’s easy to manipulate the dreamscape into anything I want. I don’t know how I know all this, no more than I understand how I know things when I dream. I just do.I throw up my hand, and a wall rises between the orange grove and me. Behind the wall, I start creating the world I need in Representative Belles’s mind.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Money is a very beautiful blessing until it gets in the wrong hands.
Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life.
— Matthew Donnelly
A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.
— Stephen Baxter, Ultima
The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
the mind is a treasuretrove, an almanac, a tomb.
— Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul
He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
It is my conclusion that the human mind and body is essentially a single cell rechargeable battery that is charged from the atmospheric DC voltage and the Earth.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
Human mind and body metals appear to be lost through radio frequency exposure and I call this hypothesis: Internal Human Corrosion
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
the universe is always delivering to us what we need for a spiritual awakening
— Erin Fall Haskell
Peaceful and racist thoughts can never coexist in the same mind. Living happily starts from loving yourself and others unconditionally.
Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
No production, no prosperity! Every "product and service" is someone's brain child... Ask yourself, when is my "naming ceremony" going to come on?. Begin producing something today and make a difference!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Stretch your mind and you will reach beyond your current reality.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Love brings you closer to yourself
— Avis J. Williams
The mind is the most fertile land. What you plant, it will grow.
— Debasish Mridha
Time endorses the complexities of a zeigarnik mind!
— Vishwanath S J
What are challenges to a mind that strongly believes in its limitless potential?
The mind is like an empty canvas and we are all artists, who spend our entire lives creating our own unique masterpieces.
— Jason Medina
The wall of every inability can only be built with one's mind.
Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.
— Mark Williams
No level of obstacle can prevail in crippling a mind that's continuously fed with positive self-talk.
A racist mind is an enemy of its happiness.
The fear of failure has no business in a mind that bears the willingness to learn and grow from all events of failures.
Its remarkable the logic we build around a misapprehension.
— Sloane Crosley
Your only limitation in life is the limitation of your mind.
— Sunday Adelaja
Imagination is a place where a rational mind travels in time to meet it's god, "The Infinite Mind"!
— Vishwanath S J
Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done
—  else you may be directed out of focus by the reward's appeals if it catches your attention!
Life has its surprises; however, they mean nothing to a mind that dwells in the direction of its positive purpose.
The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.
— Shannon L. Alder
Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.
— Banani Ray, Glory of OM: A Journey to Self-Realization
The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.
— Stephen King, Lisey's Story