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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace, Through, Goal

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

Life, Peace, Judge

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Water, Inaction, Purity

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
Clint Eastwood

Reality, Person, Him

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
James F. Amos

Job, Saying, Why

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
Michael Jackson

Keep, Open, Please

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Time, Experience

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken

Ocean, Missing, Search

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone

Goal, Problem, Personal

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Thomas A. Edison

Character, Control, Create

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

Wrong, Sense, Between

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

God, Strength, Travel

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood

Good, Job, Made

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust

Happiness, Body, Grief

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Hannah Arendt

Peace, Good, Happy

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud

Great, May, Sun

My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Food, Body, Necessary

I don't mind telling a dark side.
Clint Eastwood

Dark, Side, Telling

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

After, Body, Thirty

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale

Reality, Become, Whatever

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

Life, Love, Age

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James

Cannot, Start, Background

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn

Next, Innovation, Stretch

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

Blessing, Fortune, Riches

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Security, Tradition, Secure

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

Great, Character, Light

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal

Strength, Shows, Degree

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo

Long, Congress, Streets

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