Brainy Thoughts

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

Victor Frankl – Author of the ground-breaking book Mans Search for Meaning.

Self-Image

“This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist, critic, and social reformer George Bernard Shaw used his plays and essays as vehicles for his theories and causes, some of which were very political and economic socialism, a new religion of creative evolution, antivivisection, vegetarianism, and spelling reform.

“Lose this day loitering – ’twill be the same story
To-morrow – and the next more dilatory;
Each indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days,
Are you in earnest? sieze this very minute –
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated –
Begin it, and then the work will be completed!”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)

“Everything in life is a paradox,
The less you care whether you get approval,
The more you get.”

Wayne W. Dyer

“Before enlightenment
Chopping wood
Carrying water.

After enlightenment
Chopping wood
Carrying water.”

Zen Proverb

Founded in China in the sixth century and widespread in Japan by the twelfth century, Zen Buddhism emphasizes achieving enlightenment by the most direct means possible.

“If man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer”

Henry David Thoreau, from Walden

“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”

Leo Burnett

“Most plans are just inaccurate predictions”

Ben Bayol

“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”

Alan Ashley-Pitt

You know how people often say that we humans only use 2% of our brain power, well this guy Win Wegner has figured out some techniques to access a bunch more of it!

If any of these keywords sound interesting to you, then check out the links;
Image-Streaming in brief
Image-Streaming
The Einstein Factor
Genius Code
The Socratic Method
Over the Wall
High Thinktank
Einstein and Socrates

All BrainyThoughts Approved good reading!!

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

Richard Bach

“Noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.”
Martin Luther King, Jr – Talking about Henry David Thoreau, in his autobiography.

“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. “
Henry David Thoreau

Lyrics
It is interesting to note the invisible growing subconscious longing that crowds & listeners have for something of meaning, regardless of whether they understand it or not.

More often than not, a good musical band will have a talented lyricist, who is obviously well-read!

If you have any good lyric’s, email them to me; matt [at] brainythoughts [dot] com

Extra-for-experts: See if you can find reference from where those lyrical ideas may have originally come from.

“Laws do not act, people do. If you act, according to a law, and commit a wrong, it is you who has committed that wrong.”
Paraphrased Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience

“Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction.”

Except from Faithless Lyrics, song “Mass Destruction”