The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
Frank Herbert
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The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and...
FRANK HERBERT The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Acupuncture works by freeing up any resistance in the body and mind.
MICHAEL HETHERINGTON Let us try to heal the mind first before we heal the body.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash.
ROSEMARIE YUSEN We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON All the research centers in life today combined together can not be compared to one active,sound & m...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mind is the biggest research center in the universe.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & he will still end in poverty because,generating wealth has never been his ide...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;some people believe that somethings are mind corrupting,not knowing that they've actual...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER A man who cannot decide whether or not to pull the trigger, wages war against only himself.
DAVE FRANCIS Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
ANTOINE RIVAROL I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an ink...
DON DELILLO Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is ...
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Modern society is large and complex, with institutions wielding great power over the lives of many. ...
DAVID MCRANEY The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash
ROSEMARIE YUSEN Quantum physics findings show that consciousness itself created order - or indeed in some way create...
LYNNE MCTAGGART The body is wounded by the mind that inflicts damage unto itself.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust...
RON W. RATHBUN The less you look to others,
the more you find in yourself.
What have you found in yoursel...
RON W. RATHBUN Like a battery, the human mind and body must be fully discharged to stretch their capacity.
HARESH SIPPY ...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward...
VALERIE ANN WORWOOD It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
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GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself t...
THEODOR W. ADORNO Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awarenes...
AMIT RAY Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists th...
D.H. LAWRENCE The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
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SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black.
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SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a...
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SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves...
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