“Where the mind and heart are held by fear, by lack of understanding, by compulsion, such a mind, though it can think within the confines, within the limitations of that fear, is not really thinking, and its action must ever throw up new barriers. Therefore, its capacity to think is ever being limited. But if the mind frees itself through the understanding of circumstances and, therefore, acts, then that very action is creative thinking.”
― Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti – A Spiritual Guide for Independent Seekers on Meditation, Truth, and Peace
― Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti – A Spiritual Guide for Independent Seekers on Meditation, Truth, and Peace
“She must lead a very quiet life. No exertion. No fatigue. But, of course, she must not be allowed to brood. She must be kept cheerful and the mind well distracted.”
― Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories
― Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories
“Not that I know so much, but there are so many equally valid possibilities. For the present I do not believe that anyone is justified in saying that sexuality is the mother of all feelings.”
― The Freud/Jung Letters
― The Freud/Jung Letters
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
― Dale Carnegie's Trilogy : How To Win Friends And Influence People; How To Stop Worrying And Start Living; The Art Of Public Speaking
― Dale Carnegie's Trilogy : How To Win Friends And Influence People; How To Stop Worrying And Start Living; The Art Of Public Speaking
“The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
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