A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer 
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
Dance... enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- 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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I open my mind to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- 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
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
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