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"Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily."
"The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
"Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
"He who controls the media controls the minds of the public."
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."
"To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind."
"Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish."
"If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood."
"Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries."
"The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times."
"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
"The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes."
"Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats."
"Books are the training weights of the mind."
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."
"Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery."
"Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?"
"Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference."
"Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free."
"Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind."
