"You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you."
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"If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility."
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"Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose."
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"A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen."
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"I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind."
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"Let others vibrate as they vibrate and want the best for them. Never mind how they're flowing to you. You concentrate on how you're flowing. Because one who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful, more influential than a million who are not."
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"The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go."
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"Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions."
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"I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them."
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"Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known"
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"At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see."
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"All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome."
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"I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I'm inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song."
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"Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind."
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"The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete."
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"God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word."
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"The heart says yes, but the mind says no."
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"Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain"
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"The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body"
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"Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!"
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