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Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
Related topics: Nature
Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- 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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- 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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
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
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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