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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your essence be the nectar of the open blossom of your joy.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
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Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I come with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,
time stops completely,
disappears,
leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
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