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We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.
Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
If I told you, you'd only know it in your mind, not in your heart. There's a big difference.
Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.
Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.
Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
I don't mind being called Supernova. If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.
When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied
I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.
Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.
There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.