It is a fact that cannot be denied:
the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness
because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
- Carl Jung
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
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 human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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 will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
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
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- 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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
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
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.
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Get the habit of analysis -
analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When the heart-mind opens, the nectar of its flower is Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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