Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Julio was willing to bet that Officer "I've Seen It All" Mac had never seen a horde of black-skinned demons wearing rags… — Brom Copy Share Image
Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I… — Beth Riesgraf Copy Share Image
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“... a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep on living...His spirit blasted away so that… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“And so he sat, waited in the silent night, occasionally checkin his watch to stay awake, and letting his mind wanter once… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
“They were still standing too close. Turner tipped his head against the wall and looked up at Lawrence with lazy indifference. Most… — Cat Sebastian Copy Share Image
“Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or… — Evita Ochel Copy Share Image
We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For me the information has to remain incredibly neutral. It's what I would call 'ice-like' information. I receive very rapid impressions. I… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I don't mind that if I ever star in movies, they'll likely be mine. That's okay, because my great role models -… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced.… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
![“[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.” quote by Moderata Fonte](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/580/moderata-fonte-42110_adam_i-t-was-with-a-good-end-in-mind-that-of_2691016.png)
