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Definition

a commonly repeated word or phrase

or in its original meaning: an utterance repeated in meditation

My mantra helps me leave the cares of the world and open myself to meditation.

Our shared mantra became "It can always get worse."
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
I repeat it like a mantra as I grab a rock and smash the first rune.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
As long as I repeat the mantra in my head, I know I'm still alive.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
The words He's dead echoed like a mantra she couldn't escape.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
It was like a mantra, the way he had once held her at Renwick's and chanted her name over and over.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
His mantra fell, rhythmic accompaniment for his drumming.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die."
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie
He had been repeating these words like a mantra for several months.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Or maybe it was the one in my head, my mantra.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
He was sitting on the ground, his knees drawn up to his chest, and he was chanting the statement like a mantra, but loudly.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
A secret mantra that she could use to choose a lover from among the gods.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
"Keep it together, keep it together, keep it together," I chanted over and over, mantra-like.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
I repeated it like a mantra as she led me across the bog.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
He sat on the ground with his back to the big tree and prayed to God, the same mantra, over and over.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
Nathaniel is back to his mantra.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
Three stands at the heart of the mantra.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
She relived the clenching fist of labor pains, and the mantra she'd used to get through them: When this is done, imagine what you'll have.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Matt knew this was some kind of mantra, a thing hippies chanted in Central Park, but could it also be the motto of the 131st Aviation Company?
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
But as I start off toward Deering all I can think is, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, like a mantra, or a prayer.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium

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