“I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!” GivingMindBigsLanguageLinesSpaceWhiteRoomsHalfElementsBreatheCraftsDenseDevoteeWhite SpaceCoupletsAlways On My Mind Author:Anna Journey
“What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansRealRealityGivenInterestingFashionExampleElementsModelsConsciousIndependentFeaturesMost InterestingPhenomenalOpaqueRealness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years, even in past relationships, that I'm still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I'm still growing and becoming.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsMindStillsSometimesStoriesPastStrongParentPowerfulKnownGrowingChildhoodBecomingElementsAspectEducationalVulnerabilitySpokesAestheticMind BlowingPast Relationship Author:Aisha Hinds
“The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.” MenWayMindImportantPoliticalLeftPiecesCuttingMinutesElementsDoctorsRelationMemoirPersonal Life Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.” MindLiteratureNatureTeachFourTeachingElementsAmbitionBreastsMy AmbitionFramedFour Elements Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.” MindStatesBodyCertainNaturalElementsRefinedDeficiencyAdditives Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.” GivingMindReasonSoundTeachingBuddhismElementsPhilosophicalCoreCeaseContemporaryInterpretationAcceptableSecularSupernatural Elements Author:Julian Baggini
“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” YearsMindMadeSaidSoulEarthBitsClassHonorElementsYears AgoPrisonCriminalsKinshipCommonalityLower ClassYour Honor Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.” PeopleWorldLifeInspirationalMindBelieveArtRealizingCreationElementsMirrorsContraryPrincipalReflecting Author:Rabindranath Tagore
“Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.” PeopleFeelsShouldMindLittlesPersonsMadeIdeasDifferentMotherFatherSpeakWaterFireFiveToo MuchHabitElementsWoodsGuiltyTemperCigaretteBentDifferent DirectionsBad TemperAuntie Author:Amy Tan
“We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.” MenMindHumansLittlesSelfSocialWhiteFantasyPureElementsDignitySightLaysWaveIceVisiblePrivacyTurmoilSubmergedOverpowering Author:Ian Mcewan
“Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.” MindToo MuchMagicElementsLosingHandleLaughedToo Much PowerLosing Her Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection