"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."
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"How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines."
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"Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives."
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"Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us."
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"Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done."
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"Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?"
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"My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury."
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"I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you."
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"As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges."
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"Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little."
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."
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""Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind.""
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"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."
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"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."
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"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual."
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"Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse."
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"Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul."
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"Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts."
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"The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest."
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"I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind."
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