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«Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Heart, Mind | Keywords: avenues, dreaminess, entrance, reveries
«Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.»
Author: Garrison Keillor | About: Beauty, Mind | Keywords: cent, dollar, fifty, haircut, haircuts
«A very receptive state of mind...not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.»
«A wise man changes his mind, a fool never»
Author: Spanish Proverb | About: Change, Mind, Wisdom | Keywords: fool, wise, wise man
«Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind»
Author: Zen Proverb | About: Mind | Keywords: master, mastered
«Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.»
Author: Andrew Young | About: Happiness, Mind, Wealth | Keywords: annihilates, fortunes, lavishly
«Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: apparatus
«A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Mind | Keywords: hollow, returns, vacant
«Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.»
«Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.»

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