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The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.
I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.
The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
What's the difference between the Lib-Dems and a supermarket trolley? A supermarket trolley has a mind of its own.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Once I get in my mind that it's going to go "da da da dadada da da," then it's kind of like filling in the blanks.
I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
You don’t mind when he stares at you.” Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric. "He doesn’t stare,” I said. “He looks.
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.