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For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.
My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.
It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?
A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?
You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.
When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.
It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.
Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.
The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you.
Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.
Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.