Mind Quotes - Page 28

• Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Travel, Sunshine, Land

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• Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

  Maureen Daly

  Growing Up, Thinking, Feelings

  Maureen Daly (2009). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.

  Humphry Davy

  Lying, Women, Roots

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• The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

  Susanna Rowson

  Compassion, Self, Wish

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

  Grace S. Richmond

  Creativity, Creative, Compass

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• Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

  Karen Kijewski

  Men, Guilt, Poor

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• Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

  Karen Kijewski

  Girl, Mother, Women

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• The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Past, Echoes, Impression

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.

  Maren Elwood

  Roots, Old Habits, Differences

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• Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

  Maren Elwood

  Character, Two, Pages

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• Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.

  Maren Elwood

  Light, Long, Giving

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• there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Differences, Cosmetics, Cleansing

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• Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

  Susan Hale

  Prayer, Fasting, Rue

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

  Charlotte Lamb

  People, World, Trouble

  Charlotte Lamb (1981). “Stranger in the night”, Harlequin Books, 1981

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• I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

  Charlotte Lamb

  Understanding, Wish, Railway Station

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• The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

  Margery Wilson

  Self, Inward, Looks

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• The truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance.

  Eliza Parsons

  Children, Sorrow, Looks

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• The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.

  Carol Bly

  Children, Reading, Cutting

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.

  Hallie Burnett

  Impact, Different, Emotion

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• But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

  Helen Waddell

  Desire, Flesh

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

  Eleanor Dark

  Yield, Creative, Body

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• Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Death, Simple, Emotion

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• [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

  Fay Faron

  Home, Night, Doors

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• If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.

  Sally O'Reilly

  Writing, Ambition, Wish

  Sally O'Reilly (2014). “Dark Aemilia”, p.107, Myriad Editions

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• We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

  Sybil Leek

  Men, Civilization, Evolution

  Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd

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