- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
- Lust
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
- Fortune
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020