Alain de Botton Quotes, Believe Quotes, Mind Quotes

We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.

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As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

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I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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The mind contains all possibilities.

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The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

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I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

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