Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Related topics: Wisdom
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
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Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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 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
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
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
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
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
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
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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