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• The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mind, Use, Done

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• All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

  Marcel Proust

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Luck

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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which do you believe in, luck or Destiny?" Joe considered a moment befoe replying, "We make our own luck, Ludlow, by our actions and our state of mind. As such you control your own fate. Oney one thing is certain: None of us can escape the grave.

  F.E. Higgins

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Mind, Wish

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8126, Delphi Classics

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• As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Mind, Suffering

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, December 24, 1996.

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• Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary".

  Unknown

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Communication, Emotional, Mind

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.94, Guilford Publications

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• Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)

  Stephen Levine

  Attitude, Good Life, Believe

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• Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space. Jonah Griggs is my second reminder to never ever trust another human being. My mother was first.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Reality, Names

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• Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Eye, Kissing, Breathing

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.103, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.

  Lauren Myracle

  Mind, Want, States

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.172, Penguin

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• Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

  William James

  Philosophy, Mind, Should

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.

  Anne Lamott

  Memories, Self Esteem, People

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

  Douglas Coupland

  Suicide, Warrior, People

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• I like playing human beings - I don't believe in good or bad. I don't believe in black and white. I believe in different tonalities. I believe in different layers of emotions and states of mind. I believe in characters that can be human.

  Demian Bichir

  Believe, Character, Black And White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

  Christina Aguilera

  Thinking, Listening, Mind

  "Christina Aguilera Answers our Burning Questions, Says 'I Don't Believe in Regrets'" by Angie Romero, abcnews.go.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Civilization, Mind, Foundation

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

  Oleg Cassini

  Fashion, Mirrors, Style

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• I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Travel, Adventure, Hands

  Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

  Agnes Martin

  Adventure, House, Joy

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• These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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• ...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Meditation, Mind, Delight

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.77, Penguin Books India

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• Picked up the yoga, put down the soda.
  My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over.
  Life of a stoner (if you still concerned),
  I never lose, I only win or learn;
  It's all about your state of mind.

  Dizzy Wright

  Rap, Yoga, Winning

  Song: State Of Mind, 2014

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• It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

  Eric Clapton

  Reality, Emotional, Mind

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