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A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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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
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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.
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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.
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Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
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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
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
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
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
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
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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
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
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I am the poet of my mind.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I come to life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
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