Mind Quotes
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A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
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Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
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When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
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I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.
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Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.
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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
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As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!
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The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.
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I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
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It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.
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When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
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I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river. The formation of personality is inextricable from place. It strikes me as an interesting example of dependent co-arising; land shapes the organism, which then reshapes - literally and figuratively - the land. This because of this; not that because not that. Nothing is separate, least of all the literary mind.
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Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.
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Each time we make this shift and choose happiness, we experience a miracle. Our mind shifts from fearful delusions and reconnects to our truth, which is love. Creating these shifts requires a dedicated commitment to choosing love.
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When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
