"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
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"The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to."
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"Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me."
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"But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here."
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"Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs."
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"I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change."
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
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"I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail."
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"She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another."
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"Reading musses up my mind."
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"Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind."
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"If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor."
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"Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be."
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"I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped."
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"Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity."
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"If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth."
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"You cannot stop the human mind from working."
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"As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure."
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"My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it."
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"It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will."
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