Quotes 881 till 900 of 1238.
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The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Ethics -
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
The shorter novels and stories of Carson McCullers (1972) -
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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