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.
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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
My minde to me a kingdome is,
Such perfect joy therein I finde
As farre exceeds all read more
My minde to me a kingdome is,
Such perfect joy therein I finde
As farre exceeds all earthly blisse
That God or Nature hath assignde
Though much I want that most would have
Yet still my minde forbids to crave.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my read more
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
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.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
