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"Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid."
"No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind."
"My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline."
"When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self."
"Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind."
"True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it."
"You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press."
"Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers."
"An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers."
"Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it.""
"By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing."
"It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?"
"I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind."
"I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind."
"Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God."
"It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case."
"Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service."
"you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one."
"Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all."
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
