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Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.
We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.
Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.
For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don't be scared of what if.
The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.
There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.
What always gives me peace of mind is that the best are the best. People who float to the top will always float to the top.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.
Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.
Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.
The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.
I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.
Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.
I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.
In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.
I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?
There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts.