"After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness."
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"The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good."
"Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion."
"In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for."
"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."
"The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something."
"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."
"Amusement to an observing mind is study."
"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
"The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body."
"My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that."
"Paradise is a state of mind."
"Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved."
"Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait."
"That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind."
"What is matter? Never mind."
"Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being."
"From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage."
"The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself."
"You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe."