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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simplicity and repose are qualities
that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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 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
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
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- 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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream with Powerful Vision:
I open my mind to Spirit,
and trust my intuition to deliver inspiring visions of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
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
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I open my mind to Spirit, and trust my intuition
to deliver inspiring visions of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
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
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
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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