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Minds Quotes (page 171)

Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "What you have to do with your mind, when your body is..."
What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else. Frances Hodgson Burnett
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest. Robert M. Pirsig
Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be J. B. Priestley
Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. And she says, that lady rich and beautiful that I can never come near, 'Only put me in that empty place, only try how little I mind myself, only prove what a world of things I will do and bear for you, and... Charles Dickens
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone. Roald Dahl
For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying to grow without light, putting out white shoots that will inevitably wither. May Sarton
William S. Burroughs quote: "There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business."
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. William S. Burroughs
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Things have a mind of its own; it’s simply the matter of..."
Things have a mind of its own; it’s simply the matter of waking up their souls.” – Melquiades Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations. Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigoratingto push his mind in unaccustomed directions for a change, to be forced to stay on his toes. Paul Auster
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
Edward Gibbon quote: "To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor."
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's..."
Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces L. M. Montgomery
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads Ayn Rand
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. David O. McKay
Long ago, Louis Wu had stood at the void edge of Mount Lookitthat. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Louis's eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Louis Wu, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see? Now he reaffirmed that decision. Larry Niven

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