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Mind Quotes
"A thought comes when it will, not when I will."
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"Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through."
Mind,
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"Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel love and avoid loneliness. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment, and even in our dreams, we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition towards states of consciousness that we value."
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"Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind."
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"THoughts have unique beauties, you will never be able to express it in words."
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"You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand."
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"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."
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"I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?"
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"Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation...to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down."
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"The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme - thinking too much."
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"Each and every words count.Each and every thoughts count."
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"Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!"
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"She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn't understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right."
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"When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts."
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"I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write."
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"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."
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"Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else."
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"I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world."
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"I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened."
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"Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind."
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"Don't let your mind drown out your intuitive voice, train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence."
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"In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
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"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."
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"The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind."
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"Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning."
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"Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence."
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"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
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"How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-- your self. You must believe in your own powers."
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"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
Mind,
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"I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource."
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"I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with the children-- none of these prevents a second and continuing layer of thinking, wondering, conjecturing. Surely this must be true of everyone. Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think."
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"The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself]."
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