The Mind Is Its Own Place Quotes

“Look around you. A fear of living, of truly living, is the most common fear there is.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Do not be mistaken," she said as she dressed in the blue light of morning. "You are not the man I love. You are a man I love.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“The best of people are not those who buy flowers and give them to their loved ones to be placed in pretty vases on bedside tables and mantelpieces. The best of people are those who grow flowers in boxes on their window sills for all those who pass by to see.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Perfection is not something the world has to offer.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Since God made man in his image, to understand the nature of God, we must first come to an understanding of our own nature, realising that our vices as well as our virtues are mirrored in those of God. If people are flawed, then it is because He too is flawed. And perhaps, He is in need of our understanding, as well as our love, just as they are.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“People are very fond of saying that you should never run away from your problems. Yet if your problem were a man-eating tiger, perhaps running away is exactly what you should do.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“I have lived in seventy-two cities over the course of my life," the old man said, proudly. "There is no part of the world, I know nothing about."
The young people on the bench beside him looked at him with admiration.
"And which city did you like best?" one asked him.
The old man thought for a long time, then sighed.
"Now I look back," he said, "I think I was happiest in the village in the country where I grew up. If it had been the second place I had lived, I think I should have stayed there my whole life. But because it was the first, I convinced myself that there must be somewhere better and have never stopped looking for it.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“I have lived in seventy-two cities over the course of my life," the old man said, proudly. "There is no part of the world, I know nothing about."
The young people on the bench beside him looked at him with admiration.
"And which city did you like best?" one asked him.
The old man thought for a long time, then sighed.
"Now I look back," he said, "I think I was happiest in the village in the country where I grew up. If it had been the second place I had lived, I like I should have stayed there my whole life. But because it was the first, I convinced myself that there must be somewhere better and have never stopped looking for it.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“The only people who have a chance of fully understanding a relationship are the two people in it. Others may think that they have a special insight because one or other or both have confided in them, or because they themselves have had relationships that they feel have taught them what should be done in any given situation. In reality, however, they know nothing. They do not see what happens behind closed doors; how two people speak to one another, what they say or how they act or feel. If you have any sense, you'll remember that and never ask advice of anyone or listen to what anyone says about your relationship because, in the end, their advice, though well-intentioned, will be blind and like only to lead you into error and misery.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“In bed," she said, as they lay in bed, "most men will believe anything you tell them.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“In the past, I always hated this time of day," she said. "It always felt as though nothing truly wonderful could ever happen in daylight. But now I am not so sure.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Since God made man in his image, to understand the nature of God, we must first come to an understanding of our own nature, realising that our vices as well as our virtues are mirrored in those of God. If people are flawed, then it is because He too is flawed. And perhaps, He is in need of our understanding, as well as our live, just as they are.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“The secret to finding peace in religion, is to attain an understanding that God Himself is far from perfect.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“A man who looks too deeply inside himself is apt to see nothing and so despair.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“History condemns those who give the orders. It forgets those who commit the crimes.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“In the bible it says that God only created one man in his image and then one woman. It seems to me therefore that ever since that moment, humanity has been a product of humanity and thus owes less and less gratitude to its original creator.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Nothing cost nothing," he cautioned, repeating the words of his father. "Anytime you think something is free, you should remember that someone, somewhere, is paying for it in one way or another, and more often than not, with something that means a helluva lot more than just money.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“This will not last forever. One day soon it will be over and a week or a month after that it will seem as though it were no more than a dream. A nightmare, perhaps. But not something real. That's the remarkable thing about humanity; our capacity to forget.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“If you ever feel lonesome, you should look up at the stars and remember that everyone you care about is under them, and that perhaps they are looking up at them too.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“If a writer lacks competence, they will never write anything worth reading. If they lack confidence, they will never write anything at all.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Experience and personal growth and being stronger in the broken places and all those things, are horse shit. Our experiences do not enrich us, they ruin us by slow degrees.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Tomorrow is always different," he said. "Whether it will be better, however, is another thing entirely and much less certain.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“People change. You choose who you go to bed with, but no-one gets to choose who they wake up with the next morning, or the morning after that, or twenty years down the line. Luck decides that for you.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“There was a name. That was all. A name upon a piece of paper. The beginnings of a letter, started but never finished and pushed into a drawer and then forgotten about as all old and unhappy things had been forgotten with the coming of that spring. Yet, after the name had been read, and a false seed of suspicion planted, the sun of their happiness dipped behind a bank of storm clouds and the light which had bathed them faded. It did not fade immediately. Nor in a way which was recognisable at the start. It faded in long silences and crossed arms, in questions which came from nowhere and were answered awkwardly for their strangeness. It faded in kisses avoided and tired sighs, then finally in absences and then all was passed into darkness, though neither knew it until a moment in which they both turned to look for what once they had loved, and found it was gone.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“I am happy now. Why would I want to ruin that by thinking about a future in which it is possible I will not be?”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Why are we always drawn back to the past? And why do we always end up letting it ruin the present?”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“To look back on the happiness we have already experienced, is safe. Those memories of a happy time are something that nothing can change nor take from us. The happiness of the present and future is less certain. At any moment, it can disappear...”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“A man who is good to animals," she observed, coldly, "is a man you can trust to be good to animals. Nothing more.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“It is better, after all, to have a face that people want to punch, than to have one that excites no desire at all...”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place