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May these quotes about Barrenness inspire and motivate you.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,
are neither your mind nor your body.
Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.
Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,
as when it twitches or pains.
Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.
That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,
shame, foreboding, worry, and fear
is your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
Geography has made us neighbors.
History has made us friends.
Economics has made us partners,
and necessity has made us allies.
Those whom God has so joined together,
let no man put asunder.
- John F. Kennedy
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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