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"Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body."
"Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind."
"Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds"
"The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity."
"In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum."
"There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God."
"My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant."
"Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now... You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?"
"Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place."
"Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance."
"There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies."
"The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess."
"Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems. It's like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people and it's cool."
"When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body"
"I had a mom and a pop who kept telling me that I was wonderful at a very early age. So when someone said to me, "Oh, you're stuck up. Who do you think you are?" I'd say, "I know who I am, and I don't mind being stuck up"."
"I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance."
"Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence."
"Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not getting laid." What am I doing wrong?"
"When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place."
"There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life."
