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In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
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Patience is an ever present alternative
to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience.
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find
lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger.
It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are
and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to.
It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,
moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
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The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
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 most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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 closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
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
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
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
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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