The need to quiet and free the mind that is filled and captured by millions of thoughts daily cannot be overemphasised. Each person has their own share of cares, little niggles and concerns which we wish not to have and sometimes they end up boggling our minds in a really bad way which can affect our degree of happiness and our ability to function maximally.
This is why the mind needs to be freed and quiet and these 20 quotes can help you get there.
1. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you are riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and Live! –
Bob Marley
2. Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter –
Mark Twain
3. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it –
Aristotle
4. A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s. She changes it more often. –
Oliver Herford
5. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve –
Mary Kay Ash
6. Happiness, true happiness is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasures, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy –
Dada Vaswani
7. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders –
Lao Tzu
8. You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind –
Joyce Meyer
9. We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal –
Thich Nhat Hanh
10. No person, no place, no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives. –
Louise L. Hay
11. Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds –
Franklin D. Roosevelt
12. Jewelry takes people’s minds off your wrinkles. –
Sonja Henie
13. We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self awareness which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. –
Joko Beck
14. The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder –
Augustine
15. Happiness is a choice. Peace is a state of mind. Both are free. –
Amy Leigh
16. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries –
Rene Descartes
17. You have the power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength. –
Marcus Aurelius
18. The only thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. –
Neil Gaiman
19. Nuture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes –
Benjamin Disraeli
20. In my mind, I’m a blind man doin’ time. –
Tupac Shakur
