An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

Anurag Shourie
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Our thoughts and ideas should be our own or we can be easily influenced by others or we can take everything we do and make it our own. With the mind, we can take anything and turn it into something else, like an artist can make a painting however she wants.

Source: Half A Shadow

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