Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.
I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.
Coffee excites my mind in ways not describable my words. The closest approximation is a sperm whale in orgasm, only silent and bubblier.
We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny
Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
The road was so dimly lighted. There we;re no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads were blind, They wouldn't give up 'til they died....
Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.
Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.
My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.
Success-minded people must understand that we cannot arrive at our destination the same as we left. Just as things will be different, you too must be different.
I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me.
Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.
