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May you find great value in these quotes by Animal House.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
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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
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted!
And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried
and smothered in chocolate.
- the movie Shrek 2
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,
time stops completely,
disappears,
leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
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
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
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
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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
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
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Looking at a sunset, just for a second
you forget your separateness:
you are the sunset.
That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.
But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset,
you are no longer feeling it;
you have come back to your separate,
enclosed entity of the ego.
Now the mind is speaking.
- Osho
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho
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