Mind Quotes
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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I have always believed that exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.
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Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.
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He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so. He did not have to make any announcement to Leslie that he had changed his mind about her. She already knew it.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
