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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Telling

    To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
    book-quotereligionspiritmind

  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Wind's Twelve Quarters

    We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
    book-quotemindforest

  3. Hermann Hesse _ Narcissus and Goldmund

    Man is a dubious mixture of mind and matter; since the mind unlocks recognition of the eternal to him, while matter pulls him down and binds him to the transitory, he should strive away from the senses and toward the mind if he wishes to elevate his life and give it meaning.
    book-quotephilosophymind

  4. Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game

    And those of us who trust ourselves the least,Who doubt and question most, these, it may be,Will make their mark upon eternity,And youth will turn to them as to a feast.The time may come when a man who confessedHis self-doubts will be ranked among the blessedWho never suffered anguish or knew fear,Whose times were times of glory and good cheer,Who lived like children, simple happy lives.For in us too is part of that Eternal MindWhich through the aeons calls to brothers of its kind:Both you and I will pass, but it survives.
    book-quotemindeternityholiness

  5. Jonathan Franzen _ Purity

    {H}er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by{.}
    book-quotemindsimile

  6. Bret Easton Ellis _ Lunar Park

    The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.
    book-quotemindfailureuselessness

  7. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it.
    book-quotemindzensubconscious

  8. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Sign of Four

    My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
    book-quoterebellionmindmystery

  9. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Order of

    In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
    book-quotemind

  10. Isabel Allende _ Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

    The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
    book-quotemind

  11. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Land of the Blue Flower

    If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
    book-quotemindugly-thoughts

  12. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Circle of Quiet

    When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.
    book-quoteimaginationwisdomintellect
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