Quotes of: Creative-mind Keyword

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

Denial

Faith: a device of the mind, fed by the soul, that functions like crutches to a man in a wheelchair.

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Opportunities may surface clearly, but it takes a positive mind to see them. Positive people think and think possibilities even in difficulties and failing situations.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn’t who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.

Death's Revenge

Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their child...

Dibs in Search of Self

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Dreams of Sleep

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

Disgrace

Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.

Dreams Unleashed

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.

Day

I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.

Essays On Art, 1915 1933

I have set my mind to make sure I am prepared to accept success, whatever the trials ahead, whatever the work required.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

The End of Your Life Book Club

Oh, don't mind me," came an extremely sarcastic voice near the wall. “You two go ahead and make out–I'll just sit here and bleed quietly.

The Eternity Cure

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

The Essays of Montaigne - Complete

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Ender's Game

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

Eat, Pray, Love

Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side.

Excursions in my Mind