#mind

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

#idleness #mind #stupidity

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves. ↗

— Kate Millett

#could #did #far #had #horrifying

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#cannot #child #developed #formed #him

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context. ↗

— John N. Mitchell

#compared #context #i #important #just

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#because #becomes #big #big deal #character

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#fall #like #love #love you #mind

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#aspiring #beyond #content #contraction #going

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#feminist #her #interestingly #mind #mother

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not? ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#assume #back #could #feeling #having

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ↗

— Edward P. Morgan

#both #breaking #examine #explore #explosive