#mind

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart... ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#buddhism #mindfulness #attention

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. – ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#new-thought #science-of-mind #education

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ↗

— Mark Twain

#travel #prejudice

What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you? ↗

— Will Lavender

#mind #stuck #obedience

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#peace-of-mind #anxiety

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#philosophy #present-moment #mourning

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#close-mindedness #hypothesis #open-mindedness #maturity

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown... ↗

— Robert Greene

#peace #quiet #contentment

Where to look if you've lost your mind? ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#insanity #mind #sanity #sanity