Imprisoned Quote by Salman Rushdie

“When on the eve of glory, whilst brooding over the prospects of a bright and happy future, whilst meditating upon the risky right of…

— Amanda McKittrick Ros

“peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble…

— Charles Bukowski

“By mindfully choosing our habits, we harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

“by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to be a…

— Albert Camus

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this…

— George Eliot

“It might be said that in the sublime feeling, thinking becomes impatient, despairing, disinterested in attaining the ends of freedom by means of nature.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We are, therefore, seeking how the mind can follow a smooth and steady course, well disposed to itself, happily regarding its own condition and…

— Seneca

“We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.”

— Seneca

“...That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds onmipotence…

— Walter Russell