Wordgrove Post & Review

Words: notes in the mind played like a music for creating harmony, instrumental in cacophony …the song of thoughts, a symphony of quotes.
~I. Ben Chang-Hyde

Wordgrove’s Post & Review uses quotes

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THIS EDITION: mind

Quoted In The Grove:
After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of elasticity…
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
~Albert Einstein

Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.
~Vera Stanley Alder

EndQuote:
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
~Charles F Kettering

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Next Prompt: fault

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Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredrome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag…. We take for granted the ridiculous-sounding yet undeniable fact that each person carries around atop the body a complete universe in which trillions of sensations, thoughts, and desires stream…. It’s where catchy tunes snag, and cravings keep tugging.
~Diane Ackerman

For – hold them – Blue to Blue –
The one the other will absorb –
As Sponges – Buckets – do –
The Brain is just the weight of God –
For – Heft them – Pound for Pound –
And they will differ – if they do –
As Syllable from Sound –
~Emily Dickinson

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I have too much brain for my head; it cannot play at ease in its case.
~Joseph Joubert

A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.
~Henry Flynt

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
~Madame De Stael

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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

One of the habits of the mind is the invention of horrible imaginings.
~Jorge Luis Borges

What a sink of madness is man’s mind!
~Octave Mirbeau

No ghost could frighten me as my own thoughts will.
~Mabel Collins

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
~Latin proverb

When the mind’s free,
The body’s delicate. The tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Save what beats there.
~William Shakespeare

Mental health is the ability to love, the ability to work, the ability to play, and the ability to use your mind soundly.
~Ashley Montagu

The fastest way out of mental illness is to learn what it means to live in peace.
~Dr Bill Pettit

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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~John Milton

It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
~Edmund Spenser

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It’s certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
~Jodi Picoult

If you are always looking for fault, that is what you will find‒ and you’ll never have peace of mind.
~Dorsey Baker

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others… I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge… Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
~Gerald Jampolsky

Holding grudges has always proven to eat away one’s peace of mind.
~Edmond Mbiaka

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
~Charlotte Bronte

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Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.
~Alanis Morissette

When a man finds no peace within himself it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
~L A Rouchefoliocauld

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
~Sidney Madwed

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
~Seneca

There are so many things to confuse my mind,
As I struggle on through the daily grind!
But I feel that, sometime, I’ll surely find
The perfect answer that will ease my mind!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

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The priority of life is peace of mind, seek for it first and then everything in life will surely glow with passionate peace. No more fighting once the battle is over.
~Kemmy Nola

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
~Peter McWilliams

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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering. ~Virginia Woolf

Nothing but a devouring flame of thought—
But a naked, eternally restless mind!
~Matthew Arnold

‘Tis the great art of life to manage well
The restless mind…
~John Armstrong

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Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.
~Lettie Cowman

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can’t break their will.
~Lee Boyd Malvo

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
~Jeremy Collier

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~James Allen

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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
~Thomas Carlyle

A weak mind is ambitious of envy, a strong one of respect.
~Edward Wigglesworth

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A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, ‒when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
~Augustus Hare

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
~Lord Chesterfield

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
~Martin Farquhar Tupper

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
~Jerome K Jerome

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It is the mind that makes the body.
~Sojourner Truth

A strong body is a good asset. A strong mind is a very good asset.
~Rickson Gracie

What, then, subdues the stronger body? It is the stronger MIND!
~Andrew Jackson Davis

Let mind prevail where muscles fail.
~James Lendall Basford

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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
~Robert Collier

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
~Jane Austen

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The mind is everything. What you think you become.
~Buddha

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
~Napoleon Hill

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

The toughest battle is Mind.
~Terri Guillemets

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Posted From The Grove

You know how men become bone lazy for want of bodily exercise. Well, they become brain lazy for want of mental exercise…
~Bernard Shaw

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~Albert Camus

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
~Hermann Hesse

I’ve always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart – couldn’t put ’em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
~Craig Johnston

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
~Clive Bell

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

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From Diamond-Dust the Diamond Lustre gains,
And Brains are polished bright by Other Brains.
~Arthur Guiterman

Active minds that think and study,
Like Swift Brooks are seldom Muddy.
~Arthur Guiterman

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~John F Kennedy

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
~Felix Frankfurter

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
~B R Ambedkar

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

The desire in our minds is as real as the thirst in our throats.
~Terri Guillemets

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
~Mohandas Gandhi

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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
~Bodhidharma

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
~Eric Hoffer

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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
~Huston Smith

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
~Bryant H McGill

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
~Frederick William Robertson

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
~Hypatia

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one’s share in the world’s work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
~Jacques Barzun

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
~Alexander Pope

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
~Quintilian

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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they have open minds.
~Zack de la Rocha

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don’t seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn’t have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
~Howard Gardner

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
~Dennis Prager

Indeed, to me the charm of an encyclopaedia is that it knows, and I needn’t… In short, the place for facts is books, and I shall expect this new Britannica to enable me to forget rather than to remember.
~Francis Yeats-Brown

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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
~Edmund Burke

Your mind is what makes everything else work.
~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world – which, like it or not, is modern reality.
~Camille Paglia

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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
~David E Kelley

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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
~Howard Crosby

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When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
~George Harrison

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The mind is a city like London, smoky and populous.
~Delmore Schwartz

A busy mind, caught up in its own stuff, can make the world feel like a very small place. Meditation reminds us just how big the world really is.
~Andy Puddicombe

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
~Lao Tzu

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Real peace of mind is the companion of the silence of the mind.
~Remez Sasson

Sometimes it’s harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can’t pretend you’re not at home.
~Terri Guillemets

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
~Saint Augustine

Peace of mind is not a goal I need achieve. It’s a place inside I never want to leave. Close my eyes, I still my thoughts and then I say I will choose to live in peace today.
~Robert Alan Silverstein

We talk about training the mind, but we are not training it to do something; rather, we are training it o come to a place of natural rest, where we can see life more clearly with a new perspective.
~Andy Puddicombe

To have a quiet mind is to possess one’s mind wholly.
~Hamilton Mabie

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
~Hugh Jackman

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
~Sigmund Freud

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind!
Chuang Tzu

When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent, not holding on to reality, not getting stuck in the void, you are neither holy nor wise, just an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.
~Layman P’ang

Without peace of mind, life is just a shadow of its possibilities.
~Jean Borysenko

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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
~Bernard DeVoto

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
~Arnold Bennett

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Power of the mind comes from the quietness. Nothing is as precious as peace of mind.
~Haridutt Sharma

None is richer than he who simply has peace of mind.
~Maj Wambebe

There is no greater wealth in this world than the peace of mind.
~Tiny Buddha

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Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
~Martin Amis

I haven’t strength of mind not to need a career.
~Ruth Benedict

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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
~Marcus Aurelius

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
~Denis Waitley

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As an entrepreneur, you shouldn’t have an exit strategy. If you are planning for an exit, your mind is focused on the wrong things for your business.
~Tomas Gorny

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
~Antony Jay

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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
~Mason Cooley

One must learn the art of not getting deeply involved emotionally so that even the thought of failure does not disturb his peace of mind.
~R K Jain

Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
~Walter Scott

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Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.
~Tenzin Gyatso

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
~Robert M Prisig

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
~Swami Sivananda

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Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I’m doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I’m not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
~Chuck Palahniuk

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
~Phaedrus

You can limber up your mind the same way— by tossing ideas back and forth. Countless creative ideas have been originated by one idea bringing to mind another.
~Humphrey B Nail

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Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~Roger Babson

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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
~Larry King

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
~Carlos Ghosn

Listening works better for me. I already know what I think.
~author unknown

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
~Dean Koontz

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~Lalita Lupina: Mind Your Mind: (2:16) cartoon images, snippets of thought, random instances of mind

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~Shinseungback Kimyonghun: Mind (2:06) unsure whether mezmerizing, or soothing

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~Borja Mucientes: My Mind (6:31) fashion as a mystery, as a science, a social contract… then art

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~Thessa Meijer: Mind Dear (3:36) if’n ya likes the pooches and the people who loves ’em

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds; for it is the mind that makes the body: that is my secret, and the secret of all the true healers.
~Bernard Shaw

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What, then, subdues the stronger body? It is the stronger MIND!
~Andrew Jackson Davis

Let mind prevail where muscles fail.
~James Lendall Basford

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The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.
~Edward Sapir

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
~Alfred Adler

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
~James M Baldwin

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To be interested in the changing seasons is… a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~George Santayana

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
~Jacob Bronowski

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
~Clive James

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they’ll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.
~Jim Hunt

I constantly remind people that crime isn’t solved by technology; it’s solved by people.
~Patricia Cornwell

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I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
~David Chalmers

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
~Margaret Mead

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I wonder if there is such a thing in nature as a FAT MIND? I really think I have met with one or two: minds which could not keep up with the slowest trot in conversation; could not jump over a logical fence, to save their lives; always got stuck fast in a narrow argument; and, in short, were fit for nothing but to waddle helplessly through the world.
~Lewis Carroll

…certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
~Charles Dickens

Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
~Naval Ravikant

I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.
~Marlon Brando

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The human mind is Nature’s keyboard, on which her harmonies and discords are sounded by the touch of invisible fingers.
~James Lendall Basford

Formerly, whenever I went a-fishing in my head for thoughts or fancies, I always caught something; now the fish no longer come like that. They are beginning to be petrified upon the bottom, and I am obliged to hew them out. Occasionally I can only extract them in fragments, like fossil remains, and patch something or other together from them.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Don’t mind the…
daily road though it is rather dusty,
but remember the brooks and the hills…
~Emily Dickinson

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.
~Edwin Way Teale

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Peace of mind always comes with knowing who you truly are, where you currently stand, where you positively need to be, and strongly believing in its possibility.
~Edmond Mbiaka

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
~Stephen Covey

Living a life of honesty creates peace of mind, and peace of mind is priceless.
~Marc And Angel

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Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
~Brian Tracy

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Peace of mind begins when we stop thinking about how far we have to go, or how hard the road has been, and just let ourselves feel peace.
~Robert Alan Silverstein

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
~Lin Yutang

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But peace of mind which you hunt outside is within you. All the worries and miseries are the creations of your mind. By changing your attitude you can easily change them.
~Haridutt Sharma

Everything you need to live a truly wonderful life filled with peace and joy is something you have access to right now. It’s literally all in your mind.
~Dr Robert Puff

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
~Larry Eisenberg

You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were your last.
~Marcus Aurelius

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
~Mary Wortley Montagu

When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
~Jerry West

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
~Epicurus

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A flowerless conscience, drooping amid the ripened weeds of neglect!
~James Lendall Basford

Weeds are pulled up by the roots to clear the fields for the growing grain. Why should not mental weeds be pulled up by the roots also, and the mind cleared for growth?
~Horace Fletcher

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
~Horace Walpole

A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth… [A] man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
~James Allen

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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
~Bodhidharma

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
~Marianne Williamson

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A decision once taken brings peace to a man’s mind and eases his soul.
~Mika Waltari

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
~A C Benson

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
~Thomas Huxley

Peace of mind is attained not by ignoring problems, but by solving them.
~Raymond Hull

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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
~Jules Verne

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.
~Bob Dylan

How to calm your mind? By living in the moment. That’s where you can find pure happiness.
~Nina Purewal

A philosophic mind is not haunted by the ghosts of tradition or superstition, neither does it shrink from the most profound contemplation of the future.
~James Lendall Basford

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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
~Hugh Jackman

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
~Manly P Hall

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
~Frank Zappa

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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
~Zoe Saldana

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
~Michel de Montaigne

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
~Jacques Barzun

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
~Daphne du Maurier

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
~J Donald Walters

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
~Chanakya

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
~Joseph Addison

Obscurèd life sets down a type of bliss;
A mind content both crown and kingdom is.
~Robert Greene

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You wonder sometimes, if it weren’t for a false sense of complacency, if you’d ever have any peace of mind at all.
~Robert Brault

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
~Peter Drucker

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Lie down in blackness of night, forgotten remnants rush to the mind, or creeping slowly appear in the dreams.
~Terri Guillemets

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
~Henry Reed

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
~Gary Ryan Blair

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
~Christopher Nolan (of Inception)

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
~Henri Matisse

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies.
~David Fincher

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
~Mick Jagger

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I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.
~Derek Luke

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it’s like a splinter in your mind and you can’t get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called ‘The Hunger Games.’
~Dayo Okeniyi

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow – and at this point I think the odds are against me… the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there’s only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
~Zac Ephron

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.
~Carson Daly

I’ve become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I’m doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.
~Michael Moriarty

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I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, ‘Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We’ve got the climax coming up.’ You can start to analyze it too much.
~Hugh Jackman

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Directing is: you’re overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you’re still thinking about it.
~Campbell Scott

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.
~Michael Connelly

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
~Henry Miller

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I wouldn’t mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
~Garth Brooks

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for ‘Gold Diggers,’ I said: ‘Hey, wait a minute! Those aren’t my teeth!’
~Anna Chlumsky

I don’t mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing ‘Riding in Cars With Boys,’ I wouldn’t smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I’m the opposite. Inside my head I’d be like, God, I’ll explain to you at the end of shooting that I’m not this person.
~Drew Barrymore

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I don’t really know a lot of famous people. I’ve met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn’t come up to me and say, “Hi Dave!”
~David Zucker

It’s always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.
~Emily Blunt

It’s been real weird. It wasn’t how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I’m gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
~Jack Osbourne

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.
~Dwayne Johnson

Most people are really cool and I really don’t mind talking to them and answering their questions.
~Jimmy Carl Black

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I I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist’s big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that’s great.
~Damien Hirst

I have to remind my dad, ‘Journalists – no matter how many cigars they smoke with you – are not your friends, so don’t talk to them.’
~Cameron Diaz

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
~David Hume

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.
~Hayden Panettiere

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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
~William Wordsworth

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
~Christy Turlington

Lovely flowers have overgrown my mind — trying to crowd out the ugly world with beauty.
~Terri Guillemets

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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
~Imelda Marcos

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting;
she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief,
the souvenir of pain.
~Christopher Morley

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
~Yusef Lateef

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There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
~Yousuf Karsh

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
~Edward Bond

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
~Rene Magritte

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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
~Jack White

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
~Eve Arnold

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Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
~Damien Hirst

The mind, as you age,
Is an artist, it seems.
Monet paints your mem’ries,
Picasso your dreams.
~Robert Brault

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When you were younger, the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired. You’ve always got to make the mind take over and keep going.
~George S Patton

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It’s not only using your mind, it’s like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
~Zoe Saldana

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Mind Games

Omeleto: Ava In the End (10:04) it’s all in the mind

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~Dust: Intelligentia (11:11) who is grilling whom?

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~Dust: How Is This The World (13:42) breeching the virtual divide

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~Dust: LAL (14:04) allegorical animation, analogy squared

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~Dust: Andromeda (14:28) breeching the deeper divide

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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
~Jack Paar

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things.
~Walter J Turner

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
~William Ellery Channing

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
~James Humes

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
~Henri Poincare

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
~Joseph Rotblat

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
~Frank B Kellogg

An open mind is better than a clenched fist.
Matshona Dhliwayo

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
~Marcus Garvey

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
~Mahatma Gandhi

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what’s needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
~Ian Somerhalder

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
~William S Burroughs

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People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
~Carrie-Anne Moss

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
~George Ade

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Free your mind, and your feet will follow.
~Kevin Nelson

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Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
~William Wordsworth

The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quality.
~Deepak Chopra

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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
~John Wooden

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
~William J H Boetcker

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The racing driver’s mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
~Emerson Fittipaldi

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
~Henry Chadwick

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, ‘Don’t back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.’ If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can’t take yourself out of that moment.
~Michael Keaton

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A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.
~Gary Player

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
~Jimmy Connors

It’s when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.
~Chrissie Wellington

In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
~Muhammad Ali

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
~Dennis Rodman

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
~Mikhail Baryshnikov

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.
~Henry Miller

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In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that’s not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.
~Joe Nichols

Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.
~Mooji

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§ MUSIC:
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician’s music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
~Charles de Lint

I dabbled in things like Howlin’ Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I’d been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
~Jack White

It’s so amazing, standing on the corner ‒this happened in Washington, D.C. – and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear ‘Manic Monday’ on the radio, and you don’t even know this person, and they’re listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.
~Debbi Peterson

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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it’s because music is fun. Plain and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
~Isaac Hayes

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn’t, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.
~George Michael

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don’t mind saying that, it’s true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
~Meg Ryan

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
~Yoko Ono

Artschwager’s art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you’re looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
~Jerry Saltz

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
~Jerry Saltz

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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.
~Jacqueline Cochran

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
~Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~Jack Benny

I don’t mind my age.
~Heather Mills

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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
~Charles Caleb Colton

I think it’s a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you’ll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
~Cass Sunstein

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it’s the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
~Jerry Saltz

The mind like any other organism gradually shapes itself to what surrounds it, and resents disturbance in the form which its life has assumed.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

We always think we’d be happier in some faraway place, as if you could catch a plane to a state of mind.
~Robert Brault

Travelling expands the mind rarely.
~Hans Christian Andersen

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I don’t mind where I work, it’s really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.
~Toni Collette

I don’t mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you’re resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you’re gone.
~George Strait

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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
~Thomas Hood

Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it’s an open mind.
~Gail Rubin Bereny

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~Pixies: WHERE IS MY MIND?
Postmodern Jukebox: ft Allison Young (4:11) title is the song charmingly sung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EQq7ydALuE

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~Sunday Girl (3:34) song finds its mirror in the eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m–lZP1c28g

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~Puddles Pity Party (4:08) inhabits the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUNu3S6z7Qg

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~Hoagy Charmichael : GEORGIA ON MY MIND

~Romain Vuillemin (3:10) filmed foreign, familiar accent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hsQ0nALyLw

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~Alessandro Nasuti & Marco Cavero (4:00) imported talents making good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgTBOPh5yMg

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~John Hartford: Gentle On My Mind • The Petersens (4:10) the family that plays together…

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~James Taylor: João Pedro Melão ‒ Carolina In My Mind • ft Jacob Collier (3:52) beautifully idiosyncratic

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~Willie Nelson: Sissel • You Were Always on My Mind (3:52) truth of the song in this rendering of it

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~Elvis Presley: Angelina Jordan • Suspicious Minds (3:53) crowded with crystals, mirrors, elegant old furnishings… memories

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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that’s only expedited by ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It’s a high-class problem, but it’s real.
~Hank Azaria

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
~J K Rowling

Experiencing one peaceful relationship will change every experience one has.
~Karen Casey

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
~Plutarch

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
~Phaedrus

No, no, the mind I love must still have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of — and paths threaded with those little flowers planted by the mind. It must also have real hiding places, not artificial ones — not gazebos and mazes. And I have never yet met the cultivated mind that has not had its shrubbery.
~Katherine Mansfield

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Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer.
~Bible

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
~Heinrich Heine

I don’t mind dating younger men now.
~Jackee Harry

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
~Honore de Balzac

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
~Pink

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
~Tori Amos

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~Mencius

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Peace of mind is found when you stop judging yourself and stop judging others. Aspire to what you were born into and don’t let the limitations of your family background reduce the height of your potential.
~Kemmy Nola

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’.
~Charles Barkley

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology – the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
~Martin Scorsese

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Keep in my mind my dad didn’t become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school – so right around the time he’s going through his big renaissance is right when I’m starting to do my high school revolting.
~Colin Hanks

I’ve hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I’m a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That’s what I get for being a single dad – suspicious looks at the playground.
~Dominic West

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he’s got great strength of character.
~Olivia Williams

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I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
~Toni Braxton

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
~Ruby Wax

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I don’t think that I’m that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
~Debra Winger

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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today’s society.
~Samantha Morton

In my rational mind, I know… that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can’t say that I totally understand why – why that is allowed to happen.
~Linda Vester

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My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.
~Casey Affleck

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.
~Michael Chiklis

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
~Sitting Bull

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Calvin and Hobbes

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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
~Thomas Aquinas

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The audience changes every night. You’re the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
~Joe Rogan

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can’t get rid of.
~Calvin Trillin

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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
~W C Fields

I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.
~Victor Borge

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
~Scott Adams

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?
~Robert Brault

A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.
~Oliver Herford

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.
~Robert Brault

I suppose my childish days are over, aren’t yours? I’ve got it all together now, don’t you? I must admit though, there are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I’m not positive I am thinking.
~John M Eades

All my life I’ve wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.
~Robert Brault

It’s odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You’ll have a nice time, then two years later you’ll be like, ‘There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?’
~David Sedaris

I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.
~Robert Brault

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In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.
~Tupac Shakur

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
~Dennis Rodman

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
~J K Rowling

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
~Elbert Hubbard

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things.
~Samuel Johnson

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
~David Hare

Are the waves of the brain drawn like tides of the ocean by some psychic moon, as yet unexplored?
~Barbara Webster Shenton

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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
~Carson McCullers

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
~Sophie Swetchine

Webs of strange patterns we weave (each owns)
From colour and soul; and like unto these,
Soul has its tones and semitones,
Mind has its major and minor keys.
~Amy Levy

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Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~Jean Rostand

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
~Washington Irving

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
~Aldous Huxley

In ’98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn’t really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.
~Jerry Cantrell

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
~Laurence Sterne

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~Benjamin Disraeli

A great mind becomes a great fortune.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
~Washington Irving

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
~Zig Ziglar

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
~Aesop

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A weak mind is ambitious of envy, a strong one of respect.
~Edward Wigglesworth

A weak mind is like a horoscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
~Lord Chesterfield

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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
~Eric Hoffer

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
~Mark Twain

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
~Terry Pratchett

An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in.
~Mike Hernacki

An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.
~Virginia Hutchison

The mind of man is often like a house of which he is the landlord; bad tenants are more easily admitted than removed.
~James Lendall Basford

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The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness.
~Christopher Hitchens

By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
~Richard Dawkins

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

Many a person thinks he or she has an open mind, when it is merely vacant.
~author unknown

An open mind but not an empty head.
~Edward Tufte

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An open-minded person sees life without boundaries, whereas a close-minded person can only see what’s beyond their eyes.
~Kaoru Shinmon

We can seek,
we can find,
if we open our minds.
~Terri Guillemets

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If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
~Bryant McGill

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
~Frank Zappa

If you don’t go through life with an open mind, you will find a lot of closed doors.
~Mark W Perrett

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~George Bernard Shaw

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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
~John Desmond Bernal

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
~Margaret Mead

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
~Evelyn Glennie

…but life depends on the body being fed, whereas we can continue to exist as animals (scarcely as men) though the mind be utterly starved and neglected.
~Lewis Carroll

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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
~Byron Katie

I don’t need other people to have an open mind for me to be happy. I’m the only one who needs an open mind.
~Byron Katie

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
~Robert M Sapolsky

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
~Phil Jackson

An open mind is as welcoming as an open door.
~Nick Lopez

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
~Samuel Johnson

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!
~Karl Ludwig von Knebel

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
~Ovid

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
~Thomas Carlyle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
~Aristotle

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It is cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
~Swami Vivekananda

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Open your mind before your mouth.
~Aristophanes

Some open minds should be closed for repairs.
~Toledo Blade

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@Writers Platform

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
~Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
~Michel de Montaigne

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn’t suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
~James Laughlin

When you’re going through something, whether it’s a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like ‘Oh my God, I’m so overwhelmed; I’m dealing with this huge thing on my own.’ In fact, poetry’s a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
~Caroline Kennedy

[T]o‑day you are a great writer, a great philosopher, a great poet; a fibre of your brain breaks, and in vain they will bleed you or put ice on your head, to‑morrow you will be only a poor madman.
~Claude Tillier

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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
~Arthur Helps

The mind is like an ocean. The surface layers of the mind function actively while the deeper levels remain silent.
~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Many minds are like low-grade ores, there is gold in them, but it takes a vast deal of labor to get it out.
~John Alfred Spender

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The mind is like a mechanical instrument that plays a great variety of tunes, but it must play them in succession.
~William Hazlitt

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down and requires to be constantly wound up.
~William Hazlitt

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The mind is like a sheet of white paper…the impressions it receives are oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we’ve done that before.
~Matt Groening

The mind is like a slate, one thing gets rubbed out for another.
~Sam Slick

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them
~Thomas Merton

A mind without occupation is like a cat without a ball of yarn.
~Samuel Willoughby Duffield

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
~Quintilian

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
~Albert Jay Nook

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Prewritten Prompt: mind

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Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
~John Calvin

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
~Hans Bender

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn’t promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
~Patricia Heaton

If but Thy grace will guide us, lead us on our way,
No thief can steal our peace of mind, our light of day.
~Rumi

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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
~Eric Hoffer

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
~Bodhidharma

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
~Frances Wright

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
~Hannah Arendt

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To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
~Prem Rawat

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn’t seem to matter.
~Christopher Morley

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God has already given us peace of mind, but some of us are yet to experience it, because they continue to feed the wrong words to their subconscious mind.
~Edmond Mbiaka

If you fill your mind with thoughts of beauty, forgiveness, thankfulness, harmony and love, then the chaotic life you lead will transform wonderfully into harmonious, blissful living.
~David Michael Ferruolo

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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
~Pythagoras

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.
~Mick Mars

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
~Denzel Washington

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
~William Bennett

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
~E M Forster

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.
~Jesse Ventura

Religion is just mind control.
~George Carlin

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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
~Simon Raven

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
~Lord Byron

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
~Blaise Pascal

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
~Ramakrishna

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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
~Benjamin Carson

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
~John Wooden

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
~Michael Ramsey

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There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That’s why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
~Jesse Ventura

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember – there’s one God for all.
~Mahalia Jackson

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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Give Thy richest gift to me:
Give, oh, give me peace of mind!
Nothing else can take its place…
Peace, sweet peace, Lord, let me find!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

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The mind covers more ground than the heart, but goes less far.
~Chinese Proverb

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
~Anthony J D’Angelo

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
~Phil Jackson

You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
~George Michael

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
~Criss Jami

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§ The Exercise:

the way of it

walking the loose amble
meditation in motion
unglued from the earth
each step
not minding the curbs
walking the walk

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hypothetics

love is grand
shared minds
joined hearts
necessary actually
at least act the part
convincingly
love is grand
or we die

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an appreciation

not the shiniest scientifically beautiful
but the most expressive very best eyes
not the sharpest most incisive mind
but the forgiving kind and most wise
not exempt from the lowest lows
thus enabled for the highest highs
branching world of textured senses
art that captures, reasons theorized
the gift of yes from loving lips
aching sighs and quivering thighs
vexing questions, improper actions
full life, rich with living to be realized

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5s ‘n 7s

hermetically sealed minds
out of range, thoughts out of line
old legends as prophesy
time versus eternity
hist’ry’s not the sharpest tool
not kind nor wise, but no fool
guilt as pain pleads don’t be cruel

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the nod of a head
described as a bow
sending a signal
old meeting of minds
mergings of purpose
feminine to wed
masculine to bed

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we took a fast vote
me, myself and I
fast life / peace of mind
we chose the slow boat
on our way to die

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obey and advance
purpose of war is at stake
hell no, we won’t go
board game of The World on fire
one fail the future won’t mind

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dead men sure don’t mind
not anymore anyway
cadavers don’t talk

I’ve half a mind to…
he said bravely, stopped wisely
grave remains unfilled

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measured out of mind
time, the cycle motorized
life, the distraction

time is what matters
awake before the big sleep
mind over mattress

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you won’t see ugly
far stronger minds blown away
because then she sang

projected outcome
seduce me, then reduce me
hell no, i don’t mind

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I don’t mind not being cool.
~Chris Martin

If you don’t mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
~Colin Firth

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Mind your mind. Mind your thinking. What we think has a way of manifesting itself into reality.
~I C Robledo

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
~Earl Nightingale

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Aspatria’s mind was sensitive and observing; it lived very well on its own ideas.
~Amelia E. Huddleston Barr

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
~Eric Hoffer

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle

Here, in your mind, you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
~Friedrich Durrenmatt

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
~Harriet Tubman

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Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
~Emile M Cioran

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you. ~Terri Guillemets

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Controlling the mind doesn’t take one to freedom. Controlling the mind adds another link to one’s shackles.
~Wu Hsin

A mind is as strong as its weakest link.
~Thomas Lansing Masson

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How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
~David Joseph Schwartz

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don’t believe what people say, believe what they do.
~Mick Mulvaney

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Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
~Robert Brault

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It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.
~Robert Brault

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~William S Burroughs

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Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
~Joan Rivers

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The minute you stop overwhelming your mind with caring about what everyone else thinks, and start doing what you feel in your heart is right, is the minute you will finally feel freedom and peace of mind.
~Melchor Lim

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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

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As you create peace in yourself, you increase peace in the world by adding one more peaceful person to it.
~Jerry Dorsman

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