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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Colin Wilson.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Mind Change
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch 
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
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
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Dream with Powerful Vision:
I open my mind to Spirit,
and trust my intuition to deliver inspiring visions of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your essence be the nectar of the open blossom of your joy.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am the poet of my mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
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
Taoists understand that both the mind and the body
are mere tools of the Spirit,
and that intention creates physical reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My religion consists of a humble admiration
of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I open my mind to Spirit, and trust my intuition
to deliver inspiring visions of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I come with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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