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I dug out an old brown suitcase and threw a few clothes into it, then looked around my bedroom for memorabilia, but stopped when I remembered that the purpose of memorabilia is to trigger memory. I didn't want to be lugging my memories all over the place. They were to heavy.
— Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These would be the parts of her that rotted last, the bits left over once the rest skittered off on the wind or was drunk deep by the roots.
— Hugh Howey, The Unraveling
She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way.
— Faraaz Kazi
...and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last.
— Joe Meno, Office Girl
Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It’s beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand.
— Isaac Marion, Boarded Window
The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such a high price. What I want are the moments I will never have. The warm ones. The living ones.
— Isaac Marion, Boarded Window
My mind has cleared a little; I’ve regained some instincts and associations, echoes of the Living world if not actual memories. Those I still have to steal.
— Isaac Marion, Boarded Window
I don't believe in the white spectre-type of ghosts you get in stories, but what if ghosts are something else? Like memories somehow caught and trapped in time, released by being in certain places where things first happened.
— Julia Green, Breathing Underwater
I like the memories because they remind meI haven't always beenthis girl,constantly mad or scaredor confused.
— Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.
— Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.
— Marina Tavares Dias
...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I know. You can be fine, and then,out of nowhere,a memory blindsides you.
— Lisa Schroeder, Chasing Brooklyn
Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.
— Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to denote what we saw, we had to make up our own. That was why we spoke of "yodeling in the canyon" and "tying the tube," of "groaning in the pit," "slipping the turtle's head," and "chewing the stinkweed." Years later, when we lost our own virginities, we resorted in our panic to pantomiming Lux's gyrations on the roof so long ago; and even now, if we were to be honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that it is always that pale wraith we make love to, always her feet snagged in the gutter, always her single blooming hand steadying itself against the chimney, no matter what our present lovers' feet and hands are doing.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...
— John Geddes
...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
When he opens the door, I step in and an army of memories comes at me from all sides.
— Lisa Schroeder, Chasing Brooklyn
Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falling upon a given day would resuscitate whole contexts. And from this archipelago of moments, scenes, episodes, you could see the larger tectonic movements of your life forming and unforming. You would be reminded of who you are. Or at least of who you were.
— Thomas Beller
...every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of a branch against the window at night, the steady insistence of it is comforting. She has stories without beginnings, stories that trail off, stories that crisscross and contradict and dead end.Toy is the star of her stories. Events orbit her like a constellation.
— Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Uses for Boys
Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course of the remaining deaths. The prevailing symptom of this state was an inability to recall any sound. Truck doors slammed silently; Lux's mouth screamed silently; and the street, the creaking tree limbs, the streetlight clicking different colors, the electric buzz of the pedestrian crossing box - all these usually clamorous voices hushes, or had begun shrieking at a pitch too high for us to hear, though they sent chills up our spines. Sound returned only once Lux had gone. Televisions erupted with canned laughter. Fathers splashed, soaking aching backs.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
I lit a fire and sat there in my rocking chair. We lit a candle for him. It was as simple as that. I knew that what I had done may have been a catalyst in Danny's death, but I also knew that there was really nothing else I could have done. I can never really lose that feeling. I wasn't guilty, but I felt responsible in a way. It's part of what I do. Managing the band and taking care of the music is very painful at times. It's a sad story. A moment I will never forget, years I can never replace, music the world will never hear, all gone in the turning of a second.
— Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with ghosts hovering around her.
— Yolanda A.  Reid, Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood
Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.
— Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
— Lois Lowry, The Giver
Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.
— Damien Echols, Life After Death
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Who are we without our memories?
— Marta Acosta, Dark Companion
Perhaps the rest of the world was gone. It was the most plausible answer. Heaven knows she couldn’t see or think of anyone else. That must be the answer, they were the only two people left, as the Earth spun into a timeless abyss. Claire once read time doesn’t pass at normal speeds within a black hole. If one were to travel into a black hole for only moments and return again, centuries would have passed. That explained the sensation she felt, once again peering into his dark gaze. She wouldn’t look away; she’d trained herself better than that. Then again, she reasoned, it wasn’t an option. She couldn’t divert her gaze if she wanted. The hold upon her stare was stronger than any ropes or chains made by man. Claire knew from experience, submitting to the hold was her best chance at survival. Fighting was a futile waste of energy.
— Aleatha Romig, Truth
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.
— Pittacus Lore, Eight's Origin
Music is powerful; it transforms emotions and experiences into something tangible. Every time you hear a familiar song, the feelings from it bubble to the surface, bringing back memories you might have otherwise forgotten.
— Michelle Madow, Remembrance
The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that. Of course, there are things that actually, certifiably happened, things you can pinpoint the day, the hour, the minute. When you think about it, though, those things, mostly seem to happen to other people. This story actually happened, and it happened pretty much the way I am going to tell it to you. It's a true story as much as six decades or telling and remembering can allow it to be true. Time changes things, and you don't always get everything right. You remember a little thing clear as a bell, the weather, say, or the splash of light on the river's ripples as the sun was going down into the black pines. things not even connected to anything in particular, while other things, big things even, come completely disconnected and no longer have any shape or sound. The little things seem more real than the big things.
— Robert Goolrick, Heading Out to Wonderful
[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.
— James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still
What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.
— William Faulkner, Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962
Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with the past and validate as real what the passage of time has turned into hazy recollections. Were it not for them, my experiences would have remained as just imperfect memories of perfect moments.
— Isabel  Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
Everyone is born and they die, but it's the memories they leave behind that define them and let them live on than others.
— Judi Fennell, I Dream of Genies
Sometimes it's more painful to draw to mind the good times
— Amy Molloy, Wife, Interrupted
Sit back and enjoy. And remember: Always be careful what you say around your kids.
— Donna Chapman Gilbert, Becky Sue Cooper's Photo Album
Sometimes those experiences crowd back upon the memory, and the past flashes back like a distant peak momentarily lighted up by sunbeam piercing through the clouds. Then oblivion again. Strange it is how the prosaic present may hide the exciting past.
— Whipplesnaith
When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.
— Ray Loriga, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore
The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.
— Caroline Green, Dark Ride
I walked in the dark forest at night...I couldn't see much further in the dark ,I heard the sound of the past, ..Memories Went back clear to me and Fear started hunting me, ..No Way To Escape , No Way To Stand Still...
— Hamza wolf
I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days, like a salt lake. Or so he said.'('Left from Dhakeshwari')
— Kunal  Sen
There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family.
— Donna Chapman Gilbert, Becky Sue Cooper's Photo Album
Gritting my teeth as if it requires actual physical strength, I push the memory of him dying in my arms down, deep down. It almost seems to fight me, to want to surge into the forefront of my mind, and I sigh. Long ago I came to the realization that painful memories are persistent. The agony of them stays with you much longer, sharper, and clearer than sweet memories, that soften and assume a hazy, rosy glow in your mind, almost as if they have been airbrushed. Remembrance of pain is different; there is no muting of colors, no blurring of edges. No, its colors remain stark and bold, a palette of vibrant primary reds, blues, and yellows; its edges stay defined and razor sharp. Years later it can still cut you as deeply, make you bleed as profusely, as the day it was formed. FROM AN UNTITLED WORK IN PROGRRESS
— Lily Velden
The man went to the controls, looking up at me, flaring his nostrils to my actions. His voice was like a voice under water. “We’ll see what becomes of your rebellious nature when you lose your memories, Rei Lin.” He punched a few buttons and turned the knob on the wall to the right.
— Millicent Ashby, The Glass Serpent
The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.
— Joan Didion, Blue Nights
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
— Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.
— Alan Cohen
I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For a second I thought I could see pictures in them, like I was looking right inside her to where her memories were. She smiled, and I wondered if she knew what I'd seen or if she could see the pictures I kept hidden inside myself.
— Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
It's sad when the people you love most become a bitter memory.
— Kiera Forsythe
Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings. And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring. And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything.
— Counting Crows
Riley shook her head. “I married Brad after I got my Associate's degree in culinary arts. I worked in the Bakery at the same grocery store as Brad, and now I'm a stay at home mom.” She paused. “If you remember my senior yearbook, I was voted most likely to be the best mom.” “Oh, you have time yet.” Stella joked and Riley backhanded her in the ribs. “You're an awesome mom. Be glad you haven't proven anyone wrong. It's not all it's cracked up to be.” She paused. “That same yearbook said I'd be in prison with a wife named Roberta.”~Conversation between Riley and Stella, "Sugar and Spies: Spy Sisters Book 1
— Rebekah Martin
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
— Marcus Garvey
The grass is not 'greener' on the other side – it is just another shade of green.
— Annika Sorensen, Take Stress from Chaos to Calm
I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.
— Sylvia Browne, End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World
Darkness fell, revealing a sparkling night sky so beautiful that we decided to sleep out under the stars. At gray dawn, Phyllis woke me with an urgent voice. “Bill, Bill,” she said, “when I woke up I saw this huge boulder beside me, but it wasn’t there last night. Look! Look!” she said and pointed next to her. It was the huge buffalo bull! He had come back during the night and lay down beside us to sleep. I was awestruck. I felt so honored, so grateful, so loved. I loved that buffalo with all my heart and soul. I felt like he knew it, and that was why he had come back to sleep with us. But maybe there’s a different reason. Judith Niles, a wise spiritual friend of mine recently told me that the spontaneous melody is “the voice of the soul.” The minute she said it I knew she was right. Now I feel sure that the creatures responded to “the voice of the soul” amplified through my body. When we human beings finally get it together the natural world is going to respond to us in more wonderful ways than we can ever begin to imagine.
— William "Billy" Packer
Anyone who suffers from anxiety or depression should remember that an unhappy gut can be the cause of an unhappy mind. Sometimes, the gut has a perfect right to be unhappy, if it is dealing with an undetected food intolerance, for example. We should not always blame depression on the brain or on our life circumstances - there is much more to us than that.
— Giulia Enders, Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
Never get lost in the crowd. Climb a mountain for a better view.
— Andrew Hyde
Everything can be heard in the garden of a quiet mind.
— Andrew Hyde
Learn to express your creativity... Your monkey-mind will hate it
—  but your soul will dance in celebration.
Current research in any field of Science has not yet reached the point where we could start exploring the existential question regarding God as a Supreme Entity driving causality in the universe. However, as modern Neuroscience progresses further and gets more advanced, we shall get to dive deeper into the physiological processes underneath the Qualia of God in human mind. What we have seen so far through our studies in Neurotheology, is that it is not God himself/herself/itself, rather it is people’s perception of God that influences the human life. The Qualia of God impact all aspects of human life by altering the body chemistry at a cellular level.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
A man without mind brings ecstasy!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.
— Aamir Sarfraz (aamir rajput khan)
Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.
— Kung Fu Panda
Just as only one discordant note has the power to disturb an entire symphony, the accordance between a body and its soul can be a broken by only one discordant event. To ensure and maintain an optimal fit, one must deliberately and continuously choreograph the equilibrium of the body, mind, and soul.
— Ina Catrinescu, Love of Fate
Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Mindful Being
Recognizing the power of our Mind and the power of our Soul, learning the art of Concentration and Love, we are learning to Live with the Flow, not against it. It is in our nature to learn and grow. For happiness we need to learn to Love, we need to learn to Concentrate and we should keep the flow and energy of inspiration within our lives.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Mindful Being
Tantric scholars and Kundalini gurus often draw a distinction between the chakras as witnessed through Kundalini experiences and the Westernized model of the chakras as a "personal growth system." Some claim that this distinction is so great that there is no meaningful relationship between the two...yet I do not see these experiences as unrelated, but existing on a continuum. I firmly believe that clearing the chakras through understanding their nature, practicing related exercises and using visualization and meditation, prepares the way for a spiritual opening that is apt to be less tumultuous than is so often the case for Kundalini awakenings. I believe this Westernization is an important step for speaking to the Western mind in a way that is harmonious with the circumstances in which we live, rather than antithetical to it. It gives us a context in which these experiences can occur.Likewise, there are many who say that the chakras, as vortices in the subtle body, have nothing whatsoever to do with the physical body or the central nerve ganglia emanating from teh spinal column, and that a spiritual awakening is not a somatic experience. Because an experience is not *entirely* somatic does not mean that its somatic aspect is negated.... I believe this view is just more evidence of the divorce between spirit and body that I find to be the primary illusion from which we must awaken.
— Anodea Judith, Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System
I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path.
— James Rollins, The Eye of God
The first person to fire out of your life when you take your power back, is the one you abused the most, and he or she did not stand up for him/herself.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
All souls are sacred with a spirit and a body.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We can never controlThe World, but from Ourselves we are the Master.Jan Jansen
— Jan Jansen
Before "THOUGHT" there is only YOU and your MIND. Thought, is what assigns meaning to things. Also implying that you are not your THOUGHTS; and with your mind, you have the POWER to assign new meanings to things.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
I am The Dragon And I have come!
— Kehinde Sonola
Often, when a human suffers through major emotional traumas, a lack of well being follows if their feelings about the trauma are not completely expressed. When the trauma is severe and the suffering is continuous, their animal companion’s condition may deteriorate too.
— Colleen M. Flanagan, Tapping for Rescued & Adopted Dogs: Fast Surrogate EFT Methods for Canine Emotional Well Being
it takes something more than guts to make a stand for what you know is right. It takes an inner, unbreakable belief of self that cannot be broken, shaken or snapped by anything or anyone. This is what zoomanity despises …
— Alan Forrest Smith, Escape From Zoomanity
it's a ludicrous concept, zoomanity gives a man a job, gives a man his wages, the man can pay for the things he likes yet he spends almost every minute at work waiting for his day to end. His life is spent as a servant of zoomanity rather than a servant of humanity, eight hours a day dedicated to the thing he hates …
— Alan Forrest Smith, Escape From Zoomanity
Of course a life of devastation can be re-created into a life of manifestation and wonderment. Zoomanity tells you, when you go through pain ,you must live a life around that story. This is part of their control. You got divorced… so what … You are a wonderful being, the life resurrection is real and possible. Let go of Zoomanity and feel your being
— Alan Forrest Smith, Escape From Zoomanity
they say 'lifes never fair'. That's a myth from Zoomanity. Life is fair, life is good, we all get the same, its YOU that makes the diference and you only. Blaming life is a myth created by zoomanity so you can unload of your actions onto something else. This creates a passive accepting human – THE ZOOMAN!
— Alan Forrest Smith, Escape From Zoomanity
why do you have to explain, because they ask you to? Somethings need no explanation, they just are. When you block the flow of feeling you create problems for yourself. Zoomanity is confrontational. Listen and then allow
— Alan Forrest Smith, Escape From Zoomanity
Find the right balance in life. Man is body... mind... spirit. Give the right amount of attention to each.
— Alfred A. Montapert
If we take the time to silence the chatter in our minds, it gives our heart the opportunity to awaken from its slumber. Peace of mind begins with peace in the heart.
— Molly Friedenfeld
If you can't give people a piece of your mind, they probably don't deserve the whole of your heart.
— Robert J. Braathe
Always look within, to seek out the love and joy residing inside of you and then look to find your dark shadows falling behind you disappear.
— Denis John George, The '3-3-3' Enigma: An Invitation To Consciously Create Your Reality
Feeling good about yourself is the best sleeping pill of all.
— Annika Sorensen, Take Stress from Chaos to Calm
We must dare to be true to ourselves – to see ourselves as we really are.
— Annika Sorensen, Take Stress from Chaos to Calm
It is fine to be committed to work, but our minds need time to recover and our bodies need to move.
— Annika Sorensen, Take Stress from Chaos to Calm
By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.
— Annika Sorensen, Take Stress from Chaos to Calm
The extraordinary value of the I Ching is that it reveals the secrets of dynamic natural law. Working with its changes opens up access to the middle level of the Positive Paradigm Wheel, the “e” energy layer of Einstein's Unified Theory.This middle level serves as mediating, two-directional gate-keeper between the ever-changing surface rim and the universal, timeless center. You can't get from here to there, except through the middle layer which, in Western thinking, is effectively taboo, buried in the inaccessible "unconscious." To the extent that natural law is a blind spot in the prevailing, linear and exclusively empirical paradigm, we are left powerless to move beyond the surface level of experience. The realm of light and conscience which rests beyond, on the far side of the dynamic energy level, remains functionally inaccessible. Moral codes promoted by religionists or politicians are sometimes equated with conscience. But they're no substitute for direct experience. Only by becoming intelligently competent in managing the subtle energies of the middle level is it possible to travel further inwards for the immediate, personal experience of inner light. When the middle level becomes clogged with painful memories, negative emotions and socially taboo urges, it becomes a barrier to deeper knowing. The Book of Change is indispensable as a tool for restoring the unnecessarily "unconscious" to conscious awareness, so that the levels of human potential can be linked and unified. In Positive Paradigm context, survivors who prevail in dangerous times aren't those with the most material wealth, possessions or political power. They're the ones who've successfully navigated the middle realm, reached the far shore of enlightenment and returned to the surface with their new information intact. Those who succeed in linking the levels of experience are genius-leaders in whatever fields they choose to engage. They're the fortunate ones who've acquired the inner wealth necessary to both hear the inner voice of conscience and act on the guidance they receive.
— Patricia E. West, Conscience: Your Ultimate Personal Survival Guide
Love heals: there is no infirmity of body, mind, heart or soul that can withstand unconditional love.
— Maharishi Sadasiva Isham, Ascension!: An Analysis of the Art of Ascension as Taught by the Ishayas
Good does not attract evil but the opposite, it fights to shine light on darkness.
— Tori Kinsey, Thriver: Happiness Is a Choice
I Think All Depends On Your Mind That Create This Word 
— Sushil Singh, व्यस्त लोगों के लिये ध्यान
Your mind always follows your heart. That will never change. The one good thing about you is that you are a survivor. You can survive and get out of any situation. The bad part about it is that in the process you always unintentionally hurt others as well as yourself. Did you ever ask yourself how long you will be able to go this way? Whatever you are after in your life, is it worth it?
— Stevan V. Nikolic, Weekend In Faro
We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.
— Tori Kinsey, Thriver: Happiness Is a Choice
The Positive Paradigm is: . . . a new, inclusive reality map, one people worldwide can easily comprehend and agree upon. It is equally compatible with scriptures and science, bridging the gap between them. It fulfills Einstein's intuited search for the Unified Field Theory, picturing how all parts of creation are related, interwoven and interdependent. Working with the Positive Paradigm empowers the "substantially new manner of thinking," which, Einstein said, is necessary "if mankind is to survive." 	For thousands of years, this genesis formula, the very heart of the creative process, was hidden as the secret treasure of initiates. Its knowledge was transmitted exclusively to qualified students in the inner circles of monastic schools. When Einstein intuited the theory of relativity and made it available to the general public, its long-foreseen abuse materialized. To Einstein's horror, it was misused to explode atomic bombs. This context justifies making the positive application of Einstein's inspired vision equally public now. For in its traditional context, this three-part formula is an essential piece of the knowledge puzzle. It has the powerful potential to offset earlier abuse with opposite and equally unifying results. A timely shift to the Positive Paradigm could tip the scales of history in favor of human survival.p. 11.
— Patricia E. West, Rethinking Survival: Getting to the Positive Paradigm of Change
Everyone wants wealth to some extent or another, but few have it. The difference between those who have wealth and those who do not is that the former exert their will to turn what they want into a reality.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
If giving hurts, then receiving will likely hurt, and you must again ask yourself why you feel or think the way you do.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
Lao Tze's vision is compatible with the Positive Paradigm of Change. In fact, placing the language of his passages into the levels of the Wheel serves to clarify his vision. The model is therefore shown here, along with its application to the subtitle: Common Sense. The right-brain compliment to the left-brain words of Passage One is also supplied below as a hint of what's possible.Einstein's warning, the basis of Rethinking Survival, could well have been spoken by a Chinese sage: 'Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison [of separatist thinking] by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. . . We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." Prominent themes which link Einstein with the Chinese yoga tradition include not only Compassion but also Unity and Survival. In addition, anticipating the Positive Paradigm, Lao Tze repeated alludes to a timeless center at life's hub encompassed by the surface rim of fluctuating events. 1. The Eternal is beyond words, undefinable and illusive, all-pervading yet mysterious.The timeless,  though ungraspable, is the unfailing source of all experience.To transcend mortality, and attain sublime peace, turn inward, releasing desire and ambition.To manifest inner vision, accomplishing every goal in time, extend outward with passionate conviction.Unmanifest and manifest are two sides of a coin, seamlessly joined, though apparently opposite.Entering this paradox is the beginning of magic.
— Patricia E. West, Two Sides of a Coin: Lao Tze's Common Sense Way of Change
Our true nature is bliss. That bliss is like the sun that always shines. It remains ever present, but the events in life and clouds of worry and even emotions like happiness may obscure it like storm clouds obscure the sun.
— Debra Moffitt, Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery
just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art
— Doug Cook, Taekwondo: A Path to Excellence
There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't.
— Atul Randev, The Degenerate Tales of Decadent Minds
A Spiritual Discipline is an intentionally directed action which places us in a position to receive from God the power to do what we cannot accomplish on our own....The deep waters of God's life are already flowing. We simply learn the strokes that will enable us more and more to be at home in them....The human body is our power-pack of mind-body-spirit -- we discipline it in order to practice cooperation with God. (Life with God, p. 135-137)
— Richard Foster
...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.
— Valerie Ann Worwood, The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood and Emotion
Patience is for those who can't be bothered with procrastination!
— Sharon Fletcher
Your heart is the correspondent of your soul. It knows the grooves of joy.
— Karen Ruimy, TheVoice of the AngelSayings from The Angel's Metamorphosis
Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.
— Stephen Richards
Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul”?
— Rahul Rampal
If the apperance doesn't scare you look out for the mind . If that doesn't nothing will .
— Maria Bernardin
Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods
God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.
— Leila Summers
I have been fairly misunderstood by those who think only of the heart and thereby leave the mind behind. They both are vital and important aspects of our created humanity...in the image of God". ~R. Alan Woods {2006]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
To hurt is as human as to breathe.
— J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
It's useless to lecture a human.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
— Tom Robbins
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
— Albert Einstein
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.
— David Bowie
That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
— Mother Teresa
Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Never underestimate human stupidity.
— Pittacus Lore, The Fallen Legacies
Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. 
— Margaret Mead
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
— John Steinbeck
Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.
— Terry Pratchett, Nation
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
— Abbie Hoffman
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
— Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
— Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,
— Stephen Hawking
Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
We're both just human. Nothing more. But also nothing less.
— Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
— Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
— Ben Stein
i'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry
— Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else
—  it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.
Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.
— Michael  Jackson
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
You are human and fallible.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something.
— Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it’s just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.
— Jhonen Vásquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac Director's Cut HC
This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. ...If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.
— Arthur Tofte
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
— Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”            -I did nothing for you.”            -You loved me and your love made me--human.
— Isaac Asimov, Forward the Foundation
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.
— John Marsden, The Night Is for Hunting
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings
— Evan Esar
There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.
— Graham Greene, The Tenth Man
The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being; of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.
— Jonathan Rosen, Eve's Apple
I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.
— Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.
— David Rains Wallace, The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays
I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
— Emma Donoghue, Room
Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!
— Henry James, The Madonna of the Future by Henry James, Fiction, Literary, Alternative History
After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.
— Joe Rogan
Don't you recognize me, Mary? It's your good friend Allie the Outcast - although it looks like you're the one who's the out-cast now." Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. "Now that you're here - alive and all - there's something I've wanted to do for a very long time."Then Allie reached back, curled her fleshie's right hand into a fist, and swung it toward Mary with all her might.This was one strong fleshie!The punch connected with Mary's eye so hard, that Mary's entire body spun around, and she collapsed into a leopard chair. Allie's knuckles hurt, but it was a good kind of pain."My eye!" wailed Mary. "Oh! My eye.
— Neal Shusterman, Everwild
Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
— Hermann Hesse
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
— Michael Burke
Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man most strongly: he seeks for her soul - and goes on seeking.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Only when man cornered,potential forced to appear.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear