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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today -
and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
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
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
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
I Dream with Powerful Intention -
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition
to deliver powerful visions of my inspired future,
and I empower my intent to transform those visions into reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I come with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
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
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Dream with Powerful Vision:
I open my mind to Spirit,
and trust my intuition to deliver inspiring visions of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
I am the poet of my mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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