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Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.

Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.