In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Wonder why we can do this,' he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
“…At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies… — Dee Bradley Baker Copy Share Image
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Regarding perfection, that’s a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As you transition from the past and future world of the mind to the awakened world of now, you will begin to… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
[Shoji] Hamada's [drawings] were little one-line notations of something he wanted to remember about a pot or a piece of furniture or… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind,… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Cerise ran through the course in her mind. “Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path.” She paused,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird,… — Rza Copy Share Image
There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it,… — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
![“Regarding perfection, that’s a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in it, and my mind and my intelligence gets better in my sadhana, and it reaches a certain place. When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate…” quote by B.K.S. Iyengar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8a/b-k-s-iyengar-949_awareness_regarding-perfection-that-s-a-very-diffi_2205144.png)
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