#mind

The ability to feel and express genuine gratitude for the help given when it is needed most, for the gift or boon that is given at just the right time and under the right circumstances, is a way of surrendering one’s self to benevolent external forces. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#author-stephen-richards #cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#creative mind #developments #encourage #every #mind

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#charms #i #ignorant #into #introducing

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗

— Willa Cather

#down #gets #great #itself #last

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. ↗

— Nick Cave

#artist #artistic #duty #epiphany #information

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#communism #feeds #hatred #imprisonment #men

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#indifference #into #mind #narcotic

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport. ↗

— Bobby Charlton

#beckham #beyond #desperate #footballer #his

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#athletics #back #general #mind #sprinting