"You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be."
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"Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds."
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"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
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"History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective."
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"A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind."
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"Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young."
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"Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace."
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"[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens."
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"The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless."
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"Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind."
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"Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself."
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"Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there."
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"Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?"
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"Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation."
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"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."
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"People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up."
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"Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."
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"The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3"
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"I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind"
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"Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind."
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