He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In the rational light of day, he could tell himself that it was better this way, for both of them. The past… — Kyra Dune Copy Share Image
“ No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the… — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is time to put up a love-swing! Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they swing between the… — Kabir Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Appearance is irrelevant, perception is irrelevant; what matters is that reality exists and that we are capable of understanding it. This is… — Mike Klepper Copy Share Image
I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now.… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most… — John Williams Copy Share Image
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as… — Hubert Reeves Copy Share Image
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He truly wouldn't have been surprised if they'd heard him all the way at the main Haus because Edouard pulled every ounce… — Vanessa North Copy Share Image
Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Zen is so strange as far as intellectual understanding is concerned. It looks almost absurd. That is one of the reasons why… — OSHO Copy Share Image
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay," and part of it accepts this.… — Anna Smaill Copy Share Image
Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
"I AM" itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither body nor mind, but… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
