Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Slowly, slowly, his soul was filled with bitterness at the fact that he had stood a step away from enlightenment, from the… — Dmitry Glukhovsky Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power... By reading your… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He hesitated for a split second, then told himself not to think. “I’d rather go down swinging,” he muttered as he shut… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth with an open mind and a humble heart, you will become more tolerant… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Lord Maccon believed that if his trousers were on his legs, and something else was on his torso, he was dressed. The… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“It was in the Depot Tavern that he received condolences, accepted funerary offers of drink, and, when these recognitions were exhausted, he… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“He had himself in hand for now, but a lesson of a period such as the one he'd lived through was that… — Kristel Thornell Copy Share Image
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The mind of a man that loves God does not fight against things or thoughts about them, but against the passions that… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers… — George Washington Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“He will never be satisfied,” writes one biographer...I know because I suffer from the same disease...I don't believe for a minute that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He’d successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm’s length, flitting out… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of… — Erich Bergen Copy Share Image
John Lennon was just one of us, another human just trying to get through the day, and help make tomorrow a little… — Steve Landes Copy Share Image
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by… — Laozi Copy Share Image
