1. "Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my mental history"
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Quote by John Stuart Mill
2. "This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection of a word with an object. -- And such a strange connection really obtains, particularly when a philosopher tries to fathom _the_ relation between name and what is named by staring at an object in front of him and repeating a name, or even the word "this", innumerable time. For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday. And _then_ we may indeed imagine naming to be some remarkable mental act, as it were the baptism of an object. And we can also say the word "this" _to_ the object, as it were _address_ the object as "this" -- a strange use of this word, which perhaps occurs only when philosophizing."
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
3. "Hunger is an object."
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Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel
4. "The first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely, the forms of space and time, which furnish mathematics with their object. Æsthetics thus divorced mathematics from reality, for it makes the condition of mathematics not the real, but a mental form of space and time."
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Fulton J. Sheen, Philosophy of Science
5. "Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we need to invert subject and object. You will receive from the world what you deeply long to receive the day when you give to the world what you deeply long to receive. Today could be that day."
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Quote by Franco Santoro
6. "The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene."
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Quote by Zhuangzi
7. "Hunger is not an object."
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Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel
8. "Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
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Quote by James Allen
9. "It's about mental toughness. Mental toughness is everything."
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Jon Gordon, Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else
10. "Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence."
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D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism