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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...

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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wond...

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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps ...

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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wo...

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It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behav...

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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and...

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kin...

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It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. Th...

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself...

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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not...

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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positiv...

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Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles....

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub ...

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does ...

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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction ...

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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find...

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When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more ...

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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone ...

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, ...

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortre...

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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-...

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It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...

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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn o...

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Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care o...

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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the mo...

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The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the consciou...

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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind asc...

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The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true ...

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The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it g...

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,...

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Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I g...

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I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't ...

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Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to...

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Mark KingwellMeasure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays

No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sente...

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. T...

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of an...

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Mark TwainThe Autobiography of Mark Twain

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a fu...

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Mark TwainThe Prince and the Pauper

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler...

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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindednes...

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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

God is Mind and God is infinite hence all is Mind.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain ...

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...

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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for ou...

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Max TegmarkOur Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his...

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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we c...

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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on i...

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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'...

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To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Steph...

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Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I...

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Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now ...

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never s...

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes ...

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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind t...

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In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on th...

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Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to rea...

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Michio KakuThe Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a po...

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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests w...

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I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I t...

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To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our soc...

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