"The richest minds need not large libraries."
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"We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy."
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"At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it."
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"Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more."
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"Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate."
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"Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away."
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"To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass."
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"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
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"If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph."
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"Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself."
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"While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it"
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"The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth."
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"A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up."
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"But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul."
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"I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment."
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"I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved."
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"If you're in touch with your body, you certainly have an enormous sexual advantage. The mind-body connection is the same in sex as it is in training."
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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
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"God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest."
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"You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind."
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