Mental Vitamins - Part 3

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

We spend our life fishing only to find out it was not fish we were after.

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge exists in two forms – lifeless, stored in books, and alive in the consciousness of men.

Albert Einstein, 1949

“My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes most of which have never happened.”

Mark Twain


Do all that you can, with all that you have, in the time that you have, in the place that you are.


Nkosi Johnson - The longest surviving HIV-positive born Child.


All sentient beings developed through natural selection in such a way that pleasant sensations serve as their guide, and especially the pleasure derived from sociability and from loving our families.


Charles Darwin


All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy.


Shantideva


The education of attention would be an education par excellence


William James (father of American Psychology)

“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence. But it is easier to define this ideal than to give practical directions for bringing it about.”

William James - The Principles of Psychology 1890

'No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew.' 

Albert Einstein


The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.


Marvin L. Minsky Phd - Cognitive Scientist

'Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting the different results' 

 Albert Einstein.

'Some people would rather die than think'. 

Bertrand Russell

'If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've always got.' 

Adam Urbanski

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.'


Isaac Newton

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.' 

Edward de Bono

'To simplify you have to clarify. Simplification is the new competitive advantage' 

Jack Trout 'Simplicity'

'Our life is frittered away by detail.. simplicity simplicity, simplicity.' 

Henry Thoreau

'Art should simplify.' 

Willa Cather US Novelist

If you can change your mind, you can change the world.' 

Joey Reimer Creativity Guru

'Morpheus: 'I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one who must walk through it' 

The Matrix (Film)

'We will not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.' 

T S Eliot 'Little Gidding'

'Carpenters bend wood fletchers bend arrows; wise men fashion themselves.' 

Buddha

'Do not go where the path may lead; go where there is no path and leave a trail.' 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.'


C S Lewis

'Things do not change; we change.' 

Thoreau

'Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.' 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Men are asleep, they must die before they awake.' 

The Koran

'Custom lies on us heavy as frost'. 

William Wordsworth

'The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding outside. And only he who listens can speak.' 

Dag Hammarskjold UN

'Be who you are
and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.' 

Dr Suess

'Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' 

Anon

'Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which one will I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know Alice answered. 'Then', said the cat, 'It doesn't matter.'' 

Alice in Wonderland

'Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.' 

Howard Gardner

'I was born exited' 

Mark Twain

'The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn.' 

Gloria Steinem US Feminist

'To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.'

David Bohm Physicist

'Don't just do something, stand there.' 

Zen saying

'Come to the edge', he said.
They said, 'We are afraid'
'Come to the edge', he said
They came
He pushed them... and they flew. 

Guillaume Apollinaire Poet

'After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world depends'

Wallace Stevens

'If we don't encourage others to find their own meaning, their own voice, we will never be able to sustain our own. Freedom comes from following you own voice not following another's' 

Peter Block

'Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.' 

John Dewey

'Treat people as if they were what they might be, and you will help them become capable of being.' 

Goethe

'Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.' 


Albert Szent-Gyorgi 

'You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.' 


Charles Handy

I don't give a damn for any man who can spell a word only one way.' 

Mark Twain

'In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.' 

David Perkins, 'Smart Schools.'

'I will act as if what I do will make a difference.' 

William James

'Wherever you are be there.' 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.' 

Anais Nin - Author & Poet

'Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice.' 

Anon

'Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. You simply 'must do' things.' 

Ray Bradbury

'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' 

Albert Einstein

'It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.' 

Charles Darwin

'According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.'

Deepack Chopra