"The resting place of the mind is the heart."
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"I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl."
"I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on."
"I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day."
"Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation."
"Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved."
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind."
"I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again."
"I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up."
"The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy."
"Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle."
"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience."
"Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board."
"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."
"In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity."
"Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action."
"The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success."
"People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed."