My mind's my kingdom.
-Francis Quarles

The  mind is the gem, jewel and ruby,
and great is its worth.
-Jagat Singh

Your mind is a sacred enclosure
into which nothing harmful can enter
except by your permission.
-Arnold Bennett

The mind is a garden,

confined in a certain space and time

that can be contemplated only from where I am.

-Sang H. Kim

The mind is a world,
a world that man makes.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The human mind is not, 

as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, 

but a picture gallery.

-Douglas Harding 

A man always has the voice of his mind.
-Pierre-Antoine Berryer

The state of your life
is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
-Wayne Dyer

The mind is a product of experience.
It is the result of past thinking
and is modified by present thinking.
-Sivananda

The mind is susceptible to suggestions.
It learns whatever you teach it.
-Brahmananda

The mind is your great servant.
Order it in the name of freedom!
-Kenneth G. Mills

Be transformed
by the renewing of your mind.
-The Bible

Conquer the mind,
and you conquer the world.
-Nanak

Everything that has happened to you
has come about because you first saw it
happening in your mind's eye.
-Howard Sherman

Nothing happens
that does not go through the mind.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind?
To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment,
or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse?
No, what it is really most like is a spider's web,
insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind,
and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies.
And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence,
sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.
-Logan Pearsall Smith

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.
-Julius Charles Hare

A strong and deep mind has two highest tides -
when the moon is at the full,
and when there is no moon.
-Julius Charles Hare

The moon passes effortlessly though all the phases of mind.
-William Douglas Horden

Mind is the great lever of all things.
-Daniel Webster

The mind is powerful.
Its power is generated by the flow of thoughts.
Anything moving in rapid succession
gathers power and strength.
-Chinmayananda

The mind is a current,
very deep at the centre and very shallow at the periphery.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind is like a fire
which is fueled by thoughts and desires.
-Lakshmana

The mind fleshes out what the heart envisions.
-William Douglas Horden

The joy of the mind
is the measure of its strength.
-Ninon de l'Enclos

Your mind may be likened to an incubator
which provides the proper conditions for thought to grow.
It matters not, be it positive or negative,
if concentrated upon sufficiently, it will flourish.
-Shantidasa

A man's mind is like a garden
which may be intelligently cultivated
or allowed to run wild.
But whether cultivated or neglected,
it must, and will, bring forth.
-James Allen

The mind requires daily inspiration.
-Hari Prasad Shastri

The mind grows by what it feeds on.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland

If you would make your mind strong,
you must give it strong food.
-Reuben Thomas

There are no limitations to the mind
except those we acknowledge.
-Napoleon Hill

Every now and then
a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation,
and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mind abhors a vacuum.
-Sivananda

The unfed mind devours itself.
-Gore Vidal

The mind assumes the shape
of any object it intensely thinks upon.
-Sivananda

Your mind will answer most questions
if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
-William W. Burroughs

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then,
like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
-Christopher Morley

It is the nature of mind
to always change its mind.
-Stephen H. Wolinsky

For me, the adventures of the mind,
each inflection of thought,
each movement, nuance, growth, discovery,
is a source of exhilaration.
-Anais Nin

The mind is an enchanting thing,
is an enchanted thing.
-Marianne Moore

Mind is tissue woven of light and shade.
-Aurobindo Ghose

To ask, "What am I doing with my mind?"
is to question everything that needs to be questioned.
-Hugh Prather

The mind is its question,
and it is itself its answer.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is the mind that makes one
wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
-Ramakrishna

The very activity of the mind
is a barrier to its own understanding.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Spending time with your own mind is humbling and broadening.
One finds that there's no one in charge,
and is reminded that no thought lasts that long.
-Gary Snyder

Contemplate on the mind:
something has come from here,
something from there.
Mind has nothing that is original.
It is just accumulation.
-Sadhu Santideva

Mind operates under its own conception of itself.
-A. K. Mozumdar

The mind has to be empty
to see clearly.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

From the spiritual point of view
the mind is like a mirror;
it is only useful when it is clean.
-Saradamma

Make the photographic plate of the mind clear.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The mind must empty itself of all the past
to become highly sensitive.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything;
it is open to everything.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities;
in the expert's mind there are few.
-Shunryu Suzuki

The activity of mind creates a sense of self.
Like a microscope that is calibrated
to a very narrow perspective
your own mind only senses and perceives
a very narrow bandwidth of the expression of life.
-Steven Sadleir

The mind...is a filter which permits passage
only to those messages for which it is prepared
unless reality is so pressing as to overwhelm it completely.
-J. A. C. Brown

The chief characteristic of the mind
is to be constantly describing itself.
-Henri Focillon

My mind is like a beehive,
for in the midst of buzz and apparent confusion
there is great order, regularity of structure, and abundant food,
collected with incessant industry from the stores of nature.
-John Hunter

The mind is not an instrument of knowledge,
but only an organizer of knowledge.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"

The human mind is always making progress,
but it is a progress in spirals.
-Germaine de Stael, "Madame de Stael"

In the conquest of mind-space
it is the inches, consolidated, that count.
-B. H. Liddell Hart

As day follows night,
and order is created out of chaos,
so the human mind makes countless breakthroughs
into new phases of consciousness.
-Rebecca Clark

The more unified and concentrated the mind,
the greater is its power to reveal the truth
and the greater is the truth that it reveals.
-Ashokananda

The mind has its ultimate focus
in eternal and universal coordinates.
-Marc Edmund Jones

Successful minds work like a gimlet -
to a single point.
-Christain Bovee

Make the mind
A single point.
-Deng Ming-Dao

Only in quiet waters
things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in quiet mind
is adequate perception of the world.
-Hans Margolius

The test of steadiness of mind
is steadiness of look.
-Turiyananda

A mind always determined
has always a determined walk.
-Prentice Mulford

Keep a mind that is balanced
at all times, in all conditions and under all circumstances.
-Sivananda

If water derives clarity from stillness,
how much more so does the mind!
-Zhuangzi

A mind that has understood
the whole movement of thought
becomes extraordinarily quiet, absolutely silent.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that is stilled
is still the mind.
-Kenneth G. Mills

The essential nature of mind
is the background.
-Sogyal Rinpoche

Pure mind is empty mind.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"

The mind should be a vastness like the sky.
Mental events should be allowed to disperse like clouds.
-Longchenpa

The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror.
It grasps nothing.
It expects nothing.
It reflects but it does not hold.
-Chuang Tzu

The mind of the sage, being in repose,
becomes the mirror of the universe.
-Chuang Tzu

The perfectly still mind
is universal spirit.
-Swami Ramdas

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
-Chuang Tzu

There is no place to seek the mind. 

It is like the footprints of birds in the sky. 

-Zenrin