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I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.
I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.
I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourself, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feelings.
You can ignite the senses and directly alter their state of mind and body through this scent, sparking a subliminal key to attraction.
I was happy being a lawyer, and the thought of becoming a model or even actor never came to my mind, even though I knew I looked good.
Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.
Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?
We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.
I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry
I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.
The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.
Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.