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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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Simplicity and repose are qualities
that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup

Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow


 

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

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill

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

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

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 will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick

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

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

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

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

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

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 moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

Beware the Rattlesnake of the 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

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

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 most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

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

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke

Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson

The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin

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

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes


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