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One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 
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
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today -
and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
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
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
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
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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 heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
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
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