The
forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the
course of taking hold of it. ~H.G. Wells
Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld,
Maxims, 1678
Nothing is more conducive to peace of
mind than not having any opinion at all. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Sometimes I think and other times I am.
~Paul Valéry, Variété: Cantiques spirituels, 1924
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
~F. Nietzsche
Ours
is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try
to. ~Howard Mumford Jones
Most people would rather be certain
they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
Man is fond of counting his troubles,
but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he
would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor
Dostoevsky
What a wonderful life I've had! I
only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
Often people attempt to live their lives
backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of
what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the
reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to
do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
~Albert Schweitzer
He is rich or poor according to what he
is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
A truly happy person is one who can
enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
Of all the things you wear, your
expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
The world is full of people looking for
spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson
What I'm looking for is a blessing
that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins
When neither their property nor their
honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
The happiness of most people is not
ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly
destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
~Seneca
Misery is almost always the result of
thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
Lingering disappointment comes about because there is a tendency to transform your loss into a story instead of accepting it as an event. –Phillip Moffit (www.yogajournal.com)
Whereas pain is an experience, suffering is a perception. Nelson Hochberg, http://www.nosuffering.com/nosuffering/explain.shtml
Because of our mind-body connection, what we believe, we create in our body. In other words, when we melodramatically enhance our pain and problems, they become worse. In addition, what we pay attention to becomes magnified. -- Nelson Hochberg, http://www.nosuffering.com/nosuffering/explain.shtml
As they say in the military, when great pressure arises you don't rise to the challenge, you fall to your level of training. If you have not practiced staying present and withstanding the emotional pull of small disappointments, you get swept away in the emotional waves of a big disappointment and lose perspective. –Phillip Moffit (www.yogajournal.com)
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream
while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
Enjoy the little things, for one day you
may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness
from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his
daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We act as though comfort and luxury were
the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is
something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance
to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a
mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would
take some of the rigidity out of it. -- Mark Twain
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. ~Horace
Reality is that which, when you stop
believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick
I must have a
prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it
up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"
Man is the only animal
that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the
difference between what things are and what they ought to be. ~William
Hazlitt, The English Comic Writers, 1819
It is the nature of
mortals to kick a fallen man. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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