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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
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
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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
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
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
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Dream with Powerful Vision:
I open my mind to Spirit,
and trust my intuition to deliver inspiring visions of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
I come to life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
I open my mind to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
I will give my body to my love and celebrate
that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves.
We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point.
This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My Mind Sparks; My Soul Sparkles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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