QUOTATIONS- to offer valuable thoughts of many people – both past and present – for your affirmation, contemplation, or meditation.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Milton
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Men have marble,women, waxen minds. Shakespeare.
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Attention to the mind is the natural prayer that we make to interior truth, that we may discover it. Malebranche
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He who is spiritually awakened and learns to master the mind and senses walks in the sunlight even in the midst of darkness. Sally E. Janssen
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Only by personal experience can faith and knowledge be confirmed, to evolve into one’s personal truth. S. Wilson
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Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetitie. Quintilian
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Our life is simply what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active by use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. Charles Darwin
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He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection.
He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts.
He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career.
And he is greatest who does the most of these things, and does them best.
Hitchcock
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He who is headstrong and violent shall meet a violent death.
The path of Tao is a return to the source.
He who conquers others is strong, but he who conquers himself is mighty. Lao Tse
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Meditation is the process whereby one extinguishes passion and attains knowledge. Buddha
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A man’s worth should only be reckoned by what he is in himself, not by what he has.
Beecher
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He who is wiser than I is my Father. He whose wisdom equals my own is my Brother, and he who is of wisdom less than myself is my Son. Pythagoras on Relationships
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Music is the universal language of mankind. Longfellow
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On Solitude: We must acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have someone to whom we can say that solitude is a fine thing. Balzac
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Happiness is like a kiss – you can’t have it yourself without giving it to somebody else; or like a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ronald H. Adams
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The mind can serve us as an increasing storehouse of knowledge but better, as a diamond to reflect life’s enduring truths. S.Janssen
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Love is the light and sunshine of life. We cannot fully enjoy ourselves, or anything else, unless some one we love enjoys it with us. Avebury
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Lovely indeed the mimic works of art – but Nature’s works, far lovelier. Cowper
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how men would believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the resemblance of the city of God which had been shown. Emerson
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul. Socrates
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The first sound in the song of love scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings of that mysterious instrument, the soul, and play the prelude of our fate. Longfellow
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In all things, not too much.
When asked where best to study the sacred sciences “Where you are!”…. Socrates
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Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth
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The best defence against disease is a noble mind. Paracelsus
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Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves, that is: our ideas about things. Epictetus
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