"Troubles are only mental; it is the..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
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“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.”
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“Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.”
“From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”
“To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.”