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The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.

— Virginia Woolf

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

— Plato

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

— Horace

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

— Leo Tolstoy

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

— Plato

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

— Marcus Aurelius

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

— William Shakespeare

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

— Cicero

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

— Albert Einstein

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Buddha

In the morning of my life I discover that all of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Henry David Thoreau

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

— John Milton

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence.

— Dalai Lama

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

— Marcus Aurelius

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment.

— Bertrand Russell

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

— Abraham Lincoln

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

— Winston Churchill

What we think, we become.

— Buddha

The garden of the world has no limits save in the mind.

— Rumi

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

— Virginia Woolf

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