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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by James Dewar.
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
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
The Answers of Spirit are far more powerful
than the Questions of our small minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
'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
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
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
TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How does so much gossip fit in such small 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
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
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
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
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
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
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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