#mind

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #intelligence #minds #wit #women

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-thought #peace #beauty

Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#mind #beauty

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fragile #peace-of-mind #pleasure #treasures #beauty

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#self-reminder #life

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom. ↗

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#mind #suffering #wisdom #death

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#character #death #life #mindfulness #perfection

When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#death #had #i #i think #kill