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1 " One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. "
― Michael Cunningham
2 " to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God. "
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
3 " But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion. "
4 " In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose. "
― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird
5 " I began to realize what everyone in the world knows and routinely forgets: that to be loved sexually is to be loved not for one's actual self but for one's ability to arouse desire in the other...Only the thoughts in one's mind or intuitions of the spirit can attract permanently... "
― Vivian Gornick , The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
6 " There's never peace in war....perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived "
― Will Leamon
7 " To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world. "
― Dōgen , Shobogenzo: Zen Essays by Dogen
8 " Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant " To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as " ordinary courage. "
9 " Courage originally meant " To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart. "
10 " Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so. "
― Nana Awere Damoah
11 " Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts. "
12 " The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to know these facts, just as to cuddle and pat a sick child is a natural impulse. But telling a fact to a child may not cure his ignorance of it any more than patting him will cure his scarlet fever. (p. 61) "
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13 " Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth? "
― Karen Witemeyer , Stealing the Preacher (Archer Brothers, #2)
14 " One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed or lust; a pure, painful and primitive desire, a longing for everything that was not in oneself, a torment of the flesh, that carried one beyond the limits of one's mind to other times and other places, and even, if one was lucky, to a place where there was no border between oneself and one's image in the mirror. "
― Amitav Ghosh , The Shadow Lines
15 " When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes. "
16 " Nurturing words show that you believe in the other party's capacity to learn, change and grow. One's mind is like a computer. Every message you send goes into one of two files: discounting or nurturing. The file with the most data will direct how one sees and feels about himself or herself. Messages that nurture are based on unconditional love which must be worked at, especially if you come from a discounting family. You will need to rely on Jesus to fill the void in your life with His presence and help you learn how to love unconditionall like He loves us. "
17 " When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do. "
― S.R. Ford , Mimgardr (Oblivion's Gate, #1)
18 " For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it. "
― Edward Feser , The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
19 " Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy "
― Paul Bourget
20 " Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised. "
― Gregory B. Sadler
