top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little."
Standard
Customized
More
"Your heart will always go where your mind wanders."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much."
Author Name
Personal Development
"How can you read and talk at the same time? I asked."Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging."
Author Name
Personal Development
"His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences."
Hell
"I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment."
Power
"Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation."
Thought
"We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us."
Work
"Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith."
Faith
"We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God."
God
"All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision."
Experience
"The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me."
Day
"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two."
Order
"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"
Feelings
bottom of page