Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.

- Leslie Gordon Barnard

Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeks. 

- Unknown

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

– Rosa Parks

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

- William Feather

Books are the training weights of the mind.

- Epictetus

When you wish to instruct, be brief. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. 

- Cicero

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

- Sir Walter Scott

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

- Oliver Wendell  Holmes Jr.

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

-Unknown

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. 

- Plutarch