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"... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books."
"Small things affects small minds."
"Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail."
"The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to."
"Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate."
"Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind"
"Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions."
"So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."
"When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one."
"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."
"The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it."
"The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind."
"But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds."
"Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right."
"The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me."
"There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!"
"Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else."
"At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind."
"Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with."
"Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing."
