My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.
Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.
Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.
You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.
The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it’s ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it’s ever been, my soul is more absolute.
There is no room for God in a mind that’s full of self.
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
If you can mentally see the end of the journey, then your body will physically find a way to achieve that goal.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.