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"At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone."
"Law is mind without reason."
"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."
"The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs."
"Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique."
"Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship."
"A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind."
"Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun."
"Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind."
"To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible."
"What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind."
"In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind."
"Stand guard at the portal of your mind."
"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
"When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still."
"The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I.""
"The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm."
"Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone."
"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar."
