Brainy Thoughts

“I am that, you are that, all this is that, and that is all there is.”

Vedic Seer

“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.

“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration; We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There’s no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves.”

Original author unknown. Used/publicised by William Melvin Hicks (Bill Hicks)

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, considered to be a founder of existentialist thought.

“The ultimate test for the ability to control the quality of experience is what a person does in solitude, with no external demands to give structure to attention. To fill free time with activities that require concentration, that increase skills, that lead to a development of the self, is not the same as killing time by watching television or taking recreational drugs.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, From his book The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: born in 1934, is a psychology professor at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California and is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness, creativity, subjective well-being, and fun, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world’s leading researcher on positive psychology.[1] He is one of the most widely cited psychologists today, in a variety of fields related to psychology and business.

“He who grasps things loses them.”

Author: Lao Tzu

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

Leo Tolstoy Quote: (September 9, 1828, November 20, 1910) Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, vegetarian, and moral thinker.

Count Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?”

Famous Quote by: Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant)

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
Sun Tzu quote

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
Sun Tzu quote

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid, September 26, 1952, Rome). Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.