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"You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough."
"Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation."
"...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind."
"I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world."
"I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place."
"That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it."
"And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear."
"Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering."
"unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan."
"Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people."
"I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me."
"Where the mind goes the body will follow."
"People should make up their own mind about what they think of me."
"The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything."
"Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle."
"To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man."
"Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind."
"A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself."
"In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts."
"The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first."
