Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
— Maya Angelou
Charming Mind Your Own quotations
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS.
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet.
What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
The sweet music of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.
If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.
Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.
Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.
Fill your hearts with love and gratitude.
Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness.
Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
Be loyal to your own piece of mind.
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness.
A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief.
Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.
You are what you've been looking for.
The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts.
Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic.
It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power... By reading your own energy, by becoming aware of the lens through which you see your world, you can change your mind and change your life.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say.
I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.
That your enemies have been created is God's doing;
that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.
The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.
In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented.
You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.
Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.
Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family;
a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
