Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful read more

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In read more

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]

Love is a decision - not an emotion

Love is a decision - not an emotion

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that read more

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi read more

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]

All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.