Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.
Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 41
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
Richard Steele
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
Thomas a Kempis
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You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Christopher Reeve
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne
Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.
David Eagleman
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.
Michael Hyatt
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
Kate Burridge
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
Michael Crichton
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
Adam Smith
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Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them
The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.
Julian Baggini
