The body itself, simply from the laws of its own nature, can do many things which its mind wonders at … it is in the mind’s power alone both to speak and to be silent and to do many other things which they therefore believe depend on the mind’s decision … if, on the other hand, the body is inactive, the mind is at the same time incapable of thinking Ethics
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Quote:- The body receives a surge of energy in the form of sugar when consuming unhealthy snacks. What goes up must come down.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- time,hope,motivational
Quote:- The bond between husband and wife is a strong one. Suppose the man had hunted her out and brought her back. The memory of her acts would still be there, and inevitably, sooner or later, it would be cause for rancor. When there are crises, incidents, a woman should try to overlook them, for better or for worse, and make the bond into something durable. The wounds will remain, with the woman and with the man, when there are crises such as I have described. It is very foolish for a woman to let a little dalliance upset her so much that she shows her resentment openly. He has his adventures--but if he has fond memories of their early days together, his and hers, she may be sure that she matters. A commotion means the end of everything. She should be quiet and generous, and when something comes up that quite properly arouses her resentment she should make it known by delicate hints. The man will feel guilty and with tactful guidance he will mend his ways. Too much lenience can make a woman seem charmingly docile and trusting, but it can also make her seem somewhat wanting in substance. We have had instances enough of boats abandoned to the winds and waves.It may be difficult when someone you are especially fond of, someone beautiful and charming, has been guilty of an indiscretion, but magnanimity produces wonders. They may not always work, but generosity and reasonableness and patience do on the whole seem best.
The Tale of Genji
Author:- Murasaki Shikibu
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The book of destiny is the being who doesn't believe in destiny.
Bulldozer on Duty
Author:- Abhijit Naskar
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.
The Enchanted
Author:- Rene Denfeld
Category:- best
Quote:- The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role.One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries.
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Author:- Pierre Bayard
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
Armadale
Author:- Wilkie Collins
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The bottom line is you don’t have to understand something to like it, and you don’t have to understand someone to like them.
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.
Author:- Shannon Celebi
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
Author:- Deepak Chopra
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
The Sirens of Titan
Author:- Kurt Vonnegut
Category:- philosophy,science
Quote:- The brain doesn’t learn information by rote and then save it somewhere. Instead, it organises knowledge.
Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative and Successful
Author:- Henning Beck
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The brain evolved not for us to think but to allow us to move – away from danger and towards rewards.
Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind
Author:- Caroline Williams
Category:- science
Quote:- The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost their heads and exhibiting secondarily degenerated nervous systems. In contrast, the convergence scenario does not require any brain/head/eye losses in the bilaterian phyla that lack these features, because in that hypothesis these groups never had them in the first place. Instead, the heavy lifting for the convergene hypothesis comes through its remarkable postulation that brains originated from primeval nervous systems at least three or four times within Bilateria. Both the homology scenario. and the convergence scenario seem improbable, and yet one of them must be true.Given that both scenarios are consistent with the extant phylogenetic distribution of nervous systems, which hypothesis offers the better explanation of the observed data? [...] The scientific jury is still deliberating and far from a verdict. We are therefore venturing into the frontiers of scientific knowledge.
Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
Author:- Russell Powell
Category:- science
Quote:- The brain is full of thoughts. The body is useless without the presence of the mind.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Life
Quote:- the brain is not idle, passively receiving information, but produces perceptual expectations influencing how sensory information is ultimately interpreted
Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice
Author:- Aldrich Chan
Category:- science
Quote:- The brain isn’t a muscle, it’s stronger than that.
In Limbo
Author:- A.D. Aliwat
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The brain learns by making mistakes; maybe we can stop punishing them.
The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health
Author:- Jennifer Fraser
Category:- science
Quote:- The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another form…science is god explaining god through a human nervous system…isn’t spirituality the same thing?
Author:- Deepak Chopra
Category:- science