Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1239.
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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Who Speaks for Man (1953) p. 318 -
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
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We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
Ethics, part 2 -
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
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We do not retreat from reality, we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves... By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly.
On Stories and Other Essays Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings -
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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