Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inhale, and God approaches you.
Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you.
Exhale, and you approach God.
Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
- Krishnamacharya
The cost of freedom is always high,
but Americans have always paid it.
And one path we shall never choose,
and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
- John F. Kennedy
Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
All compromise is based on give and take,
but there can be no give and take on fundamentals.
Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender.
For it is all give and no take.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Nuts.
- General Anthony Clement McAuliffe
responding to a German demand to surrender his
101st Airborne Division in Belgium during World War II.
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
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
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- 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
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
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
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 moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- 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
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
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.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
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
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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 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
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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