I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.
- Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany)
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous
I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent.
Only no-mind is original and radical.
Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
The mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living - at the minimum.
You dont live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame,
and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.
- Osho
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
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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 human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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 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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- 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
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
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
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
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
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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