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  1. Ben Bova _ New Earth

    The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.
    book-quotelearningmind

  2. Robert Greene _ The 33 Strategies of War

    Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity--precisely the time whenyou need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering. The first step in building up presence of mind is to see the need for ii -- to want it badly enough to be willing to work for it."
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  3. Lorrie Moore _ Like Life

    How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.
    book-quotemindheart

  4. Caroline B. Cooney _ The Face on the Milk Carton

    She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    ... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind {the male and female sides of his mind} equally. One must turn back to Shakespeare then, for Shakespeare was androgynous; and so were Keats and Sterne and Cowper and Lamb and Coleridge. Shelley perhaps was sexless. Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them. So had Wordsworth and Tolstoy.
    book-quotewritingmindshakespeare

  6. Virginia Woolf _ The Waves

    The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful.
    book-quoteusefulmind

  7. Markus Zusak _ Getting the Girl

    Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.
    book-quotetruththoughtswords

  8. Markus Zusak _ Getting the Girl

    I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness."
    book-quotetruthwinningmind

  9. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, I'm discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large enough to fit not just our own world, but every possibility and impossibility beyond it. Once I quit thinking of it as being forced into the laws of physics, it's easy to manipulate the dreamscape into anything I want. I don't know how I know all this, no more than I understand how I know things when I dream. I just do.I throw up my hand, and a wall rises between the orange grove and me. Behind the wall, I start creating the world I need in Representative Belles's mind.
    book-quotemindreveriedreamscape

  10. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    Or… maybe I'm not going crazy. "Maybe I'm some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I'm just breaking down. I'm not sure which way is worse. Dad laughs. "You're not in your right mind, dear," he says. "No, no, no, you're not." And then- -Silence. Dad fades away. The reverie chair disappears. There's just blackness. I remember then that I am in the reverie of something dead. Whatever that thing was, it was dead. And, just as I'm starting to wonder if, perhaps, I have died, too, I see a light, far away in the corner of the dreamscape. The light isn't soft; it's not glowing. It crackles like silent lightning, burning with electricity, sparks flying out and fizzling in the dark. I don't know why-it makes no sense, the way dreams often don't-but I want to touch the light. So I do.
    book-quotedeadsilencelight

  11. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    It's all in my mind.I'm in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.
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  12. E.A. Bucchianeri _ Faust: My Soul Be Damned for

    ... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
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