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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
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You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
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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.
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Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
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In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
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We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.
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Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
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Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.
