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Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
The Answers of Spirit are far more powerful
than the Questions of our small minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want to share with you the three rules
that I have in order to accept an apprentice.
Rule Number 1: Don't believe me.
I don't want you to believe me
but I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.
If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.
But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.
Rule Number 2: Don't believe yourself.
Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie - it's not true.
And by believing yourself, you create all the limitations
that don't allow you to be what you really are.
Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say,
listen to what you think, listen to what you believe.
And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind,
open your intelligence and make choices.
Rule 3 is, don't believe anybody else.
Don't believe them at all.
Open your ears and your mind; listen and make choices.
- don Miguel Ruiz
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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