Alain de Botton Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Mind Quotes

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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[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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Stand guard at the portal of 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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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Forgiving Quotes , Mind Quotes

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

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A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.

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Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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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 opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Mind Quotes , Superstitions Quotes

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

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I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Mind Quotes

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Mean Quotes , Mind Quotes

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Eye Quotes , Mind Quotes

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

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Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

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