#mind

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #letter-writing #letters #the-mind #friendship

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. ↗

— Robert South

#conceal #given #men #mind #ordinary

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#because #being #books #companionship #conscious

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for. ↗

— Steven Wright

#mind #venus #humor

Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging. ↗

— Ernst Cassirer

#perspective #life

Life is a hell of a thing to happen to someone ↗

— David Rossi

#life

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself. ↗

— David Zindell

#reminding #inspirational

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy! ↗

— Ron Hall & Denver Moore

#inspiration #peace #peace-of-mind #inspirational

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed. ↗

— Chriscinthia Blount

#inspirational #mind-body-spirit #obstacles #opportunities #self-help