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Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Inspirational Live-By
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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
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"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A newborn does not have worry, or stress, or anger,
because they have not yet learned those things.
Consider what life would be like if you could
forget all the past resentments and perceived offenses
that color your thinking and your emotions.
Buddhists call that state "beginner mind" -
an opening to experience life
without the jaundiced filter of past disappointments.
- 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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
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
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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
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
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
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
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Dream with Powerful Vision:
I open my mind to Spirit,
and trust my intuition to deliver inspiring visions of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- 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
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
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
A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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