Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Buddha

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The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha

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Be devoted to heedfulness. Guard your mind.

Buddha

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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

Buddha

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Vladimir Lenin

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