Mental Quotes
2442 Mental quotes by 1534 unique authors
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Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise,…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus.…
— A. G. Mohan
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Storm is prerequisite to mental gain
— Eyedea
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Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a…
— Haile Selassie
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The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing…
— Michael Leunig
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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
— Mark Twain
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.…
— John Dewey
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The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of…
— Erich Fromm
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Prejudice marks a mental landmine.
— Gloria Steinem
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With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up…
— William Faulkner
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It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education…
— Bertrand Russell
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The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
— Russell Baker
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I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also…
— Eckhart Tolle
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[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.
— Rajneesh
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The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
— Aldous Huxley
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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
— Thomas Szasz
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A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things…
— George Orwell
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To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly…
— Meister Eckhart
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud…
— Yogi Berra
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