#mind

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ↗

— George Gissing

#bad weather #beauty #blood #body #day

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught. ↗

— James P. Hogan

#carved #crooked #into #kids #logical

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. ↗

— John Beecher

#mind #strength

That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#change

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#am #any #ashamed #bashfulness #birth

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#dull #going #great #idea #illusion

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#action #capacity #exists #mind #superior

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#before #capt #christian #church #commonwealth

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#awareness #beauty #eye #i #i think