“We’re a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“In alchemy, Jung realized, he had found a precursor of his own Psychology. ‘The experiences of the alchemists were, in a sense,… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Positiveness of Soul is favourably gained through the Love Nature, rather than through mental prowess. Though attaining positiveness of Soul through the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“MAY 27 Decide to Be Positive For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Stoner was one of the pallbearers at the funeral. At the services he could not keep his mind on the words the… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Note to self: Positive hearts reward the hearts of the pythagoras soul, yet attract the neoplatonic thoughts of our peripatetic minds in… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
“Me" ( Notice Me) I was sent here on a journey that has no end. I hear you joke of going nowhere… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional In its meaning As it is in its reflection. It… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
You may never know how important you are to me or how much I care for you, but you are and you… — SA Copy Share Image
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My soul aches every time I think of you, your thoughts floods my mind every day. I try to forget you but… — Rumi Rahman Copy Share Image
“Death isn’t better,” Kaladin said, looking Teft in the eyes. “Oh, it’s easy to say that now. But when you stand on… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you look in the mirror, your difficult sibling always looks back, though the image is distorted. In the shadows lurk parts… — Jeanne Safer Jeanne Safer Ph.D Copy Share Image
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything &… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“[...] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write,… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Thinking about the women that you know: your friends, sisters, mothers, we know that we are kind of stereotyped. You like sports,… — Laila Ali Copy Share Image
Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind.… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“A grateful mind is a great mind,’’ and the Bible agrees. There are 138 passages of Scripture on the subject of thanksgiving,… — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Still In the fall, I believe again in poetry if nothing else it is a movement of the mind. Summers ball together… — Jaakko A. Ahokas Copy Share Image