#mind

In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#inner-peace #pace #peace #peace-of-mind #peacefulness

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more. ↗

— Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

#mindset #people #success #change

It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolutionary-psychology #mindset #science #change

I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #conversations #funny #humor #mind

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#mind #understanding #communication

Always have an air of expectancy. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#mindfulness #pain #self-assessment #self-awareness #truth

The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you’ve really stopped to look fear in the face.You must do the thing which you think you cannot do ↗

— Hotch

#courage

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. ↗

— James Clavell

#samurai #samurai-bushido-seppuku #strength-of-mind #courage