Mind Quotes
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Eutrapelia. 'A happy and gracious flexibility,' Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.
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Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.
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It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective.
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The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
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An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.
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Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.
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This act is engraved in my mind deeper than any other experience in my two tours in Vietnam. A huge black enlisted man, clad only in shorts and boots, hands bigger than dinner plates, reached into my helicopter to pick up one of the dead white soldiers. He had tears streaming down his face and he tenderly cradled that dead soldier to his chest as he walked slowly from the aircraft to the medical station.
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I used to look in my mind for the unwritten pageif my mind was empty enough I could see itI didn't paint the planeI just drew this horizontal lineThen I found out about all the other linesBut I realized what I liked was the horizontal lineThen I painted the two rectanglescorrect compositionif they're just right
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I don't mind playing someone's girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring something to the picture, if I can be strong and powerful and say smart things. If not, then it's just boring.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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He's somewhat lewd; but a well-meaning mind;Weeps much; fights little; but is wond'rous kind.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
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One's present personality cannot share all the thoughts of one's older personalities - and yet it has some sense that they exist. This is one reason why we feel that we possess an inner Self - a sort of ever-present person-friend, inside the mind, whom we can always ask for help.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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I don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.
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Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
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Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
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There are a lot of stories I remember with 'Wolverine.' 'Days of Future Past' is one that jumps out in my mind.
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Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.
