Alan Watts Quotes, Water Quotes, Mind Quotes

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes

Make up your mind to be happy.

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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Errors Quotes , Mind Quotes

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

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This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.

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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

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If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

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According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Silence Quotes , Mind Quotes

Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.

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