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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
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
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.
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much read more
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
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.
