To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.… — Horace Copy Share Image
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are… — Pericles Copy Share Image
How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
“Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
See, because I played behind the scenes so much I already knew what to expect. So I started getting myself ready. I… — Yung Joc Copy Share Image
I had done it all in my career. I always felt, as a kid, that that's what a director needed to be.… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
“is my deep desire that the topic “How Your Thoughts Work” would be the very first subject taught in school. I have… — Louise L. Hay Copy Share Image
In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People with the best intentions will often give you advice on why you shouldn’t take a risk because of what could happen.… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and… — Tobe Hanson Copy Share Image
Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form… — Holland Taylor Copy Share Image
The Taliban should keep it in mind that one of us has to die one day. And if I die early, it… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I find, however, it's a much more freeing way to live. It certainly beats walking around with the "Don't you know who… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
“When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of… — Johnny Isakson Copy Share Image
Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely… — John Banville Copy Share Image
It's not the mistake that's important; it's how you recover from it. If you recover instantly, in that second, it's gone from… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
“Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image