This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
“If a boy became sick he walked alone; the others were afraid to catch what he had, and did not want to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“He’d gone willingly enough. Garrett had always been fair, a mentor. He both regretted his acquiescence and thanked God he’d been the… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The hype around Ronda is incredible and it's created this aura of invincibility. If you let that play with your mind, you'll… — Liz Carmouche Copy Share Image
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Nothing moved him. No sense of remorse could knock him back into reaction; no tears of regret flowed from those weary eyes.This… — Mehreen Ahmed Copy Share Image
“He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell… — Tom Bosley Copy Share Image
“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
When I became a father, all that stuff rose up again from the back of my mind. I suddenly realised how uninvolved… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“The impact of the sense of vision on philosophy is well summed up by Peter Sloterdijk: 'The eyes are the organic prototype… — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“It taught me that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
I think you got to keep in mind that Obama was raised among Muslims, and I think he really does not want… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence.… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image