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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Mind Change
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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 not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- 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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
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
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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
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
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
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
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 will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
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
Today is my day to see myself as the face of god:
my mind sparks, and my soul sparkles;
my peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life;
I am a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My religion consists of a humble admiration
of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
Your mind sparks, your soul sparkles,
your peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life,
you are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
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