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"How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day."
"I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody.""
"The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil."
"... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all."
"If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego."
"Be willing to dream, and imagine yourself becoming all that you wish to be. Keep in mind the basic axiom -- all that now exists was once imagined. It follows then that what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined."
"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind."
"I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?""
"Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind."
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
"If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off."
"No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind."
"I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose."
"When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe."
"The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work."
"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
"My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way."
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."
"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being"
