Every book I write is filled with ideas to open people's minds. And many of my books are intended for the lay… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A place where the mind can attain stillness can be found in a great person who has a steady mind. By seeing… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?'… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“How many times had he felt alone at midnight, with the hard dark pressing in and no sign of morning? Many times… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Maybe some hidden, fragmented part of me had feared that if I admitted to Bones how much he truly meant to me,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a… — Dietrich Mateschitz Copy Share Image
A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Okay, I’m dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“For years, he said, his life had felt to him like a kind of experiment. The question being, How long could he… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
When you are balancing perfectly in a tree pose, everything is easy; your breath is deep and relaxed, and your muscles are… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is pre-suasion, directing their minds to the moment before they experience the content. There's this interesting study. A… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
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