Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
“Of course if a person looked at his life from above, he could see the whole thing for what it was; he'd… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I try and get on my yoga mat at least three times a week, and if I don't, things start to unravel.… — Sameer Gadhia Copy Share Image
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In place of a process that 'others' distressed people, we can look for ways to 'belong' them. For sure they do belong,… — Riadh Abed Copy Share Image
I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . .… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
My mom never had nothing that she could call her own. So growing up and being able to do something different with… — Bam Adebayo Copy Share Image
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich.… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...… — William James Copy Share Image
Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction...I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift,… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
