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'Tis the great art of life to manage well
The restless mind.
- John Armstrong (1709–1779), The Art of Preserving Health, 1744  [Armstrong, a physician, was known as "The Poet of Health." —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. - Eric Hoffer


The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. - Sigmund Freud


All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. - George Bernard Shaw


If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering. - Virginia Woolf


When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles. - Horace Walpole, letter to the Countess of Ailesbury, 1779 July 10th


No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. - Arnold Bennett





Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. - Pierre Cabanis, translated from French


That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. - Robert M. Pirsig


The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment. - Iara Gassen


[W]e do not have such a clear mirror for our minds as we do for our bodies. - TKV Desikachar


A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. - Cicero





The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. - Katherine Mansfield


Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. - Franklin D. Roosevelt


[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. - Samuel Johnson





The Brain – is wider than the Sky –
For – put them side by side –
The one the other will contain
With ease – and You – beside....
The Brain is just the weight of God –
For – Heft them – Pound for Pound –
And they will differ – if they do –
As Syllable from Sound.
- Emily Dickinson


The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh




Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Webs of strange patterns we weave (each owns)
From colour and soul; and like unto these,
Soul has its tones and semitones,
Mind has its major and minor keys.
- Amy Levy, "In a Minor Key (An Echo from a Larger Lyre)," c.1884


The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections. Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts. - Maharamayana


Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. - Latin Proverb


Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. - Charles Caleb Colton


Creative minds are rarely tidy. - John William Gardner, "Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society," 1964


When I feel well and in a good humor, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Aspatria's mind was sensitive and observing; it lived very well on its own ideas. - Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891  #infj


According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else... - J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003


Don’t let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. - Terri Guillemets


Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. - Euripides


Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry? - Zig Ziglar


Indeed, to me the charm of an encyclopaedia is that it knows, and I needn't. My mental lee-scuppers are often awash in facts: I want to reef not only from the blasts of boredom which are inevitable sometimes, but from the gales of new and interesting knowledge: only thus can I keep close-hauled on my mark. One often sees craft with too much canvas: sluggish in helm and liable to upset: modern life is strewn with their wreckage. In short, the place for facts is books, and I shall expect this new Britannica to enable me to forget rather than to remember. I shall expect it to air and elevate my mind, while keeping for me in a convenient place all that mass of exact information which we must carry, either in brain or bookcase. - Francis Yeats-Brown, "The New Encyclopaedia Britannica," in The Spectator, 1929 September 21st  [What beautiful old-time phrasing for "You don't have to know everything; you just need to know where to find it," even if it was a thinly veiled advertisement. And as well, how interesting that some people actually suffered from information overload that long ago. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


Sometimes it’s harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can’t pretend you’re not at home. - Terri Guillemets


The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. - Oliver Wendell Holmes


Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredrome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.... We take for granted the ridiculous-sounding yet undeniable fact that each person carries around atop the body a complete universe in which trillions of sensations, thoughts, and desires stream.... It's where catchy tunes snag, and cravings keep tugging. - Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain


Mind is a broken mirror. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh


Perhaps already I am dead,
And these perhaps are phantoms vain;—
These motley phantasies that pass
At night through my disordered brain.
Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes,
Old faded gods, this brain is full;
Who, for their most unholy rites,
Have chosen a dead poet's skull...
- Heinrich Heine, translated from German


Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way. - Koichi Tohei, Ki in Daily Life


Sweet are the thoughts that favour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,
Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss...
Obscurèd life sets down a type of bliss,
A mind content both crown and kingdom is.
- Robert Greene, c.1587


What if there are not only two nostrils, two eyes, two lobes, and so forth, but two psyches as well, and they are separately equipped? They go through life like Siamese twins inside one person. - Norman Mailer, Harlot's Ghost, 1991





Oh, dear Father God, I come—
As I always come to Thee—
And, with all my love, I bring
My wholehearted, earnest plea.
Not for wealth nor jewels, rare,
Do I ask of Thee each day,
But for that which I so need
I do ask of Thee; and, pray,
Give Thy richest gift to me:
Give, oh, give me peace of mind!
Nothing else can take its place…
Peace, sweet peace, Lord, let me find!
- Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Peace of Mind" (1940s)


I suppose my childish days are over, aren't yours? I've got it all together now, don't you? I must admit though, there are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking. - John M. Eades, The 7th Floor Ain't Too High for Angels to Fly: A Collection of Stories on Relationships & Self-Understanding, "The Boy in the Mirror," 1995


Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be. - Chuck Palahniuk, Choke


The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you. - Terri Guillemets  [Wow! Years after writing this, I stumbled onto this from Osho: "If your spirit is whole then your mind can never go crazy, because you don’t have any mind. You have a brain, you have a memory system, but you are separate from it. You can use it but you cannot be used by it." —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


There are so many things I do not know,
As over the pathway of life I go!
And the sun rides high and the waters flow,
And I'm still in doubt, for I do not know!
There are so many things to confuse my mind,
As I struggle on through the daily grind!
But I feel that, sometime, I'll surely find
The perfect answer that will ease my mind!
- Gertrude T. Buckingham, "So Many Things"


To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Zhuangzi


Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh


The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind. - Jack Adam Weber


Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever. - Pim van Lommel


Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. - Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820


Sometimes I suffer from indigestion of the mind. - Carrie Latet


You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. - Terri Guillemets


Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. - Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge





It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. - Mark Twain


Channels are blocked in the mind, from the day. Lie down in blackness of night, forgotten remnants rush to the mind, or creeping slowly appear in the dreams. - Terri Guillemets


It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. - Horace