I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Just because someone’s bullying you doesn’t mean you have to bully you as well. Katrina’s flipping cartwheels in your mind, having the… — J.D. Jacobs Copy Share Image
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are… — Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The reason the ancients had spiritual effect in learning the way was that the theiving mind had died completely. If the thieving… — Ming-pen Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“1. That reason is a gift of God and that we should believe in its ability to comprehend the world. 2. That… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“My imaginings, of course, had no objective value whatever. My spontaneous fantasies lived in my mind because I felt completely helpless in… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“What is a writer? A writer is a magician who can create a masterpiece With a wave of a pencil A writer… — Carol Archer Copy Share Image
The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“[Roger] “Do you know how amazingly beautiful you are to me?” “As beautiful as you are to me.” She slid her gaze… — J.L. Saint Copy Share Image
There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind.… — Jerry Andrus Copy Share Image
“But, nevertheless, if there is even the slightest recognition, liberation is easy. Should you ask why this is so—it is because once… — Karma-glin-pa Copy Share Image
“I have made up my mind to say my say. I shall do it kindly, distinctly; but I am going to do… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Do not force your mind to get rid of random thoughts, because your brain is simply not capable of doing so. Instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Never give up on your aspirations. Sometimes life is funny and can get in the way with simple distractions, but don't let… — Sheila Renee Parker Copy Share Image
“I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“In my mind, we were two asteroids orbiting around each other. I thought I was the sun and you were earth, but… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things.… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“KEEP IN MIND THAT progress is not always linear. It takes constant course correcting and often a lot of zigzagging. Unfortunate things… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“The world is in some essential sense a construct. Human knowledge is radically interpretive. There are no perspective-independent facts. Every act of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“What makes me say these things is that I see how much you care about the way people look at you. It… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image