Motivational Quotes Biography
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I appreciate the insight that quotes evoke and provoke. I also appreciate the opportunity to exercise my brain by reading about the people, philosophies and ideas I care about. I hope you’ll find similar inspiration in these beautiful, timeless, and sometimes provocative quotes.
— Mark Lamm
Body ✻ Mind ✻ Spirit
Health is the proper relationship between microcosm, which is man, and the macrocosm, which is the universe. Disease is a disruption of this relationship.
~ Dr. Yeshe Donden, physician to the Dalai Lama
The rhythm of the body the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Play is one of the highest spiritual forms of being. When we’re in that state, we get lost in ourselves, which allows the mind to receive the message of the spirit.
~ Ellie Katz
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied.
~ Herophilus
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~ Leo Buscaglia
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~ Buddha
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be revelation.
~ Eileen Caddy
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
~ Michael Bridge
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~ Henri Bergson
Your spirit is mingled with mine as wine is mixed with water; whatever touches you touches me. In all the stations of the soul you are I.
~ Diwan al-Hallaj
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.
~ Yogi Bhajan
Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
~ Dan Millman
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
~ Lao Tzu
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
~ Dante
Creativity
Magical Realms
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.
~ Upanishads
Words chanted, spoken and written are powerful incantations. They have the ability to heal as well as inflame, to unite as well as separate, to bring love as well as engender hatred.
~ Mark Lamm
The words “I am…” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way or reaching back and claiming you.
~ A. L. Kitselman
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~ Erich Fromm
Thoughts are creative whether they be beautiful or ugly, bold or timid, functional or dysfunctional.
~ Mark Lamm
The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
~ L. P. Jacks
Playology is about waking up our senses, infusing our organs of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting – and the higher cognitive senses as well, with the spirit of play. Play ignites creativity and spontaneity. Playing together leads to trust and cooperation.
~ Ellie Katz and, another great TEDTalk on the power of PLAY!
Critical Thinking
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
~ Euripides
Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
~ Dale Carnegie
To understand is to perceive patterns.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
~ Benoît Mandelbrot watch him on TedTalks speaking on his life’s work — fractals.
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
~ Herman Hesse
What is now proven was once only imagined.
~ William Blake
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
~ Man Ray
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.
~ Ellen J. Langer
In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
~ Carlos Castaneda