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"Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself."
"Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge."
"Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks."
"Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate."
"The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to."
"I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to."
"We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason."
"The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding."
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
"You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind."
"The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world."
"Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts!"
"Where the heart is the mind works best."
"When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward."
"When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering."
"Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone."
"To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses."
"Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that."
"Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition."
"Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind."
