In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to try to put it in your mind that you audition for a role, and then once… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
“When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat… — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
When you drink in nature through your senses, you deepen your awareness of the great silent intelligence flowing through all things. You… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind… — William James Copy Share Image
Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I want to be the bridge. I embrace it. I don't mind being a leader. I don't mind opening the doors. I… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us,… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any… — Art Farmer Copy Share Image
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence… — Nick Begich Copy Share Image
“I spit out to my heart and my mind. when you collect them together, they can not show the resistance of an… — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
In the Christian Story, mind and matter - invisible things and visible things - are both real. The Christian view is not… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps. — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's. — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image