Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 80

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
 William Lyon Phelps
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
 Barnett Newman
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
He who is contented is rich.
If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
 Brené Brown
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I\'ve always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
 Mark Ruffalo
Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.
 Maxine Greene
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.
 Kevin Allen
If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.
I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.
 Oscar Torre
A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
 Will Graham
We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
 Joanna Macy
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.
 Steve Pavlina