Robert Burns Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Mind Quotes

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Mind Quotes , Clay Quotes

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Silence Quotes , Mind Quotes

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mind Quotes , Rosary Quotes

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Truth Quotes , Mind Quotes

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Mean Quotes , Mind Quotes

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Silence Quotes , Mind Quotes

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Mind Quotes

Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn’t welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mind Quotes , Littles Quotes

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mind Quotes , Relief Quotes

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Mind Quotes , Enough Quotes

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Food Quotes , Mind Quotes

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Time Quotes , Mind Quotes

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Mind Quotes

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Men Quotes , Mind Quotes

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Mind Quotes , Littles Quotes

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mind Quotes , Half Quotes

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Secret Quotes , Mind Quotes