#mind

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. ↗

— Mary Wortley

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When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#meditation #mind #reality #remorse #thinking

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

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