Body Quote by Sir Fulke Greville Download Open image “Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.” — Sir Fulke Greville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Despair Ease Giving Mind Mortification Psychology Shocking
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?” — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image