Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
The Sweetest Strawberry:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.
He fled, the tiger after him.
Coming to a precipice,
he caught hold of the root of a wild vine
and swung himself over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where,
far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him.
Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black,
little by little started to gnaw away the vine.
The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him.
Grasping the vine with one hand,
he plucked the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted.
- Zen Koan
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
Surely God would not have created such a being as man,
with an ability to grasp the infinite,
to exist only for a day!
No, no, man was made for immortality.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
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
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
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 human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- 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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha
I come with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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