"A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.” ~Frank Zappa, Singer-Songwriter
"A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear." ~Deborah King
"A warm heart and a grateful mind attract beautiful things." ~Love in Action
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~Plato
“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." ~Eileen Caddy
"Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds. Both changes perpetually from one second to the other." ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." ~Anna Freud (1895-1982)
"Dare to stand before those you fear and speak your mind, even if your voice shakes. " ~Maggie Khun
“Don’t send your mind on things you don’t possess as if they were yours, but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren’t already yours. But watch yourself, that you don’t value these things to the point of being troubled if you should lose them.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Educate your mind with the treasures of love, care and harmony that will maintain peace.” ~Deepti Shakya
"Every person from your past lives as a shadow in your mind. Good or bad, they all helped you write the story of your life, and shaped the person you are today." ~Doe Zantamata
"Exercise not only changes your body . It changes your mind , your attitude and your mood." ~Ashleigh Rachael Maw, March 2, 2021
"Fill your mind with God's word and you will have no room for satan's lies." ~Christian Today
"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is Nature's finest balm." ~Edwin Way Teale
"For the mind to be still, the body must be disciplined." ~The Ninth Gyalwa Karmapa
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..” ~Leo Tolstoy
"Gardening in the mind is a gentle vice with an impetus of its own; it may not be as potent as actually making one, but there is a whole different threshold where gardening in the head can fill our winter tranquility with unrest." ~Mirabel Osler
"Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts makes pleasant lives." ~John Wilkins
"Go inside yourself and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth." ~Don Miguel Ruiz
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." ~Marcel Proust
"I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing." ~Bette Midler
"I believe that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost." ~John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“If we could read the minds of other animals we would find only truths.” ~A.D. Williams
"If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders." ~Begin with Yes
"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you." ~Leon Brown
"It's not really our body who feels pain but our mind." ~Tomas Tacit
"It's okay to cry when there's too much on your mind. The clouds rain too when things get heavy." ~Amina Mehmood
"It takes a big heart to help shape little minds." ~Anon
"Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal." ~Catherine Ponder
"Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and all that you have within you and all that your heart desires will surely come to you; and God Himself will come and bend over and catch His own likeness in you." ~Anon
"Luck favours the mind that is prepared." ~Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French Bacteriologist
"Maybe the mind is waiting for you to choose so that it can have a rest." ~Mooji
"Memories are the most beautiful pictures our minds can paint and nothing can ever erase them." ~The Journey Home
"My mind still talks to you and my heart still looks for you, but my soul knows you're at peace." ~LLL
"Neither anger nor fear shall find lodging in your mind" ~Dekanawidah - Cherokee
“Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension” ~A P J Abdul Kalam
"One can only wonder how much POWER corrupts the minds of men that involved bloodshed." ~Leah C. Dancel
"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't." ~ George Bernard Shaw
“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.” ~Alfred Kazin
Australian Botanical Garden
Mt Annan, Camden NSW
7 January 2023
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." ~Hans Margolius
"Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied." ~Maria von Trapp
"Our mind desires control, to know, to understand and to be right. It is only a small part of reality, yet so many people let it run their entire lives." ~Remi Sharon Pearson
"Our minds ... are riddled by confusion and doubt." ~Sogyal Rinpoche
"Our most important battles take place inside of us … in our minds, wills and emotions." ~Aging Gracefully
"Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds." ~Napoleon Hill
"People who don't leave your mind are usually in your heart." ~Jewels of the Heart
"Photos capture our memories in print, but our memories are always with us in our minds." ~Catherine Pulsifer
“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.” ~Nan Shepherd
"Quiten your mind. You'll never hear your soul over all that din." ~Sarah McCrum
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.” ~Desiderius Erasmus
"Road trips ... they take us to more places than just where our feet can take us... as the eyes see beyond the lands and the mind wanders beyond the fields...." ~Hedda Tady, April 25, 2021
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break the seashore of the mind." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Softness starts in the mind and then filters through to the body." ~Mel Fleming
"Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine on standardised tests because they do not have standardised minds." ~Diane Ravitch
"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." ~Dame Maggie Smith, 1934-2024
"The camera is just a box. What's important it's what is in your mind." ~Bill Snyder
"The conditioned mind will often create feelings out of fear, and these should not be the guiding force in your life. Instead discover the deeper feelings that arise from Presence—the source of true intuition—and to let that guide your actions." ~Eckhart Tolle
"The creations of the mind are more numerous than specks of dust in a ray of sunlight." ~Milarepa
"The ego is a very limited belief system within the sleeping mind." ~James B. Cisneros
"The eyes are useless when your mind is blind." ~Anon
"The grateful mind is constantly fixated upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character from the best, and will receive the best." ~Wallace D. Wattles
"The greatest gift we can seek is peace of mind, to walk in balance, to respect all things." ~Elders (ONONDAGA)
"The heart and mind guides the hand that holds the pen, the brush or the shutter." ~Jadj Dancel
"The human mind is at best beyond understanding, that is the wonder of how we have been created. The complexity of our thought process is amazing and what we are achieving in the application of our mind in developing technology is incredible." ~Malcolm Rankin, Faith and Life (on Kasparov versus Deep Blue, IBM super chessplaying computer, February 1966 Chess Match)
"The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master." ~Robin S. Sharma
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." ~John Milton (1606-1674)
"The mind is like water. When it is turbulent it is difficult to see. When it is calm, everything becomes clear." ~Prasad Mahes
"The mind is man’s faculty of thinking, reasoning and applying knowledge. It is our consciousness that starts in the brain and is manifested through our thoughts, actions, will, memories, imagination and emotions." ~Team Joey Yap
"The mind…is rarely so disturbed, but that the company of a friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness." ~Adam Smith
“The mind is the place where the soul goes to hide from the heart.” ~Michael Singer
"The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It's like the root of a tree. All a tree's fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. … Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimum effort." ~Bodhidharma
"The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future." ~Joseph Conrad (1875-1924)
"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." ~Thomas Paine
"The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights." ~Osho
"The power of words can break or make a man, woman or child. Poems, in my view, are stories, products of thoughts, weaved into a smaller package. Prose can be your playground (it is mine)... that bridges into poetry, if the winds allow it. Allow the heart to pour, quieten the mind." ~Hedda Tady
“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you thought the worst was over.” ~Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” ~Friedriche Nietzsche
"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand." ~Rumi
"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become." ~Anon
"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength." ~Pat Riley
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." ~Sophia Loren
“There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.” ~Virginia Alison
"There is something godly about hills and mountains, something cleansing about the rain, and it is only when birds sing, does a mind rest to get ready for the work ahead." ~Hedda Tady, May 2, 2021
"There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save." ~Daily Vibes
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." ~Buddha
"To live more meaningfully we need to have a broader mind, an open-mind, and a simple mind. This summarises the meaning of a wise mind." ~Anon
"To meditate is to rest mind like forest." ~Gede Prama
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." ~Khalil Gibran
"Transformation begins in the mind. Counter the existing Culture." ~Aleph Haorh
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit. What sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”. ~William Penn
"Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth." ~Leo Tolstoy
"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
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We see the mind like a house, so if your house is on fire, you need to take care of the fire, not to go look for the person that made the fire. Take care of those emotions first; it’s the priority. Because anything that comes from a place of fear and anxiety and anger will only make the fire worse. Come back and find a place of calm and peace to cool the flame of emotion down." ~Phap Dung, Buddhist Monk
“What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?” ~C. JoyBell C.
"When you free the mind, you free the world, your world." ~Byron Katie
"When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Yes, the mind is receptive, but reason is not our only antenna. We also need our bodies, our emotions, our hearts, our nose, our ears, our eyes, our taste and our souls." ~Richard Rohr, The Naked Now
"You have no idea how long something you say can stay inside someone's mind." ~Scarlett Leithold
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength." ~Marcus Aurelius
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change." ~Positive Thoughts
"Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits." ~Dorothea Dix
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(who hasn't ceased making into her 90s, on dreaming and creativity.)
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"Your mind is a garden." ~Whitney Hess
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