A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. – Cicero

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you. – Terri Guillemets [Wow! Years after writing this, I stumbled onto this from Osho:

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind. – Jack Adam Weber