Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
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
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
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 will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
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
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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 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 eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
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
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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