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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
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Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside,
is that they cannot win and their participants know it.
Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary
because it invites defeat.
It involves an emotional catharsis,
but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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 highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
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
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
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
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
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
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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- 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
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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