The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 290
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
Bernard Cornwell
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
Martha Graham
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
William Edward Hickson
Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.
I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.
Troy Polamalu
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.
Elizabeth McCracken
Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
Kathryn Schulz
The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
Akhenaton
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha Graham
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry A. Kissinger
Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
Carl L. Becker
As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown