Brainy Thoughts

“Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner”

Lao Tzu (c.604-531 B.C.)
Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) (563 BCE – 483 BCE) Spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism.

After a reputed 49 days of meditation under the Bodhi tree, at the age of 35, he is said to have attained Enlightenment. At the time of his awakening he realized complete insight into the cause of suffering, and the steps necessary to eliminate it. These discoveries became known as the “Four Noble Truths”, which are at the heart of Buddhist teaching. Through mastery of these truths, a state of supreme liberation, or Nirvana, is believed to be possible for any being.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) Pseudo-name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens – US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit; wrote novels “Tom Sawyer” 1876, “Huckleberry Finn” 1884, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” 1889

“Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
George Orwell, 1984

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish writer and poet. Became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922) French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental literary work In Search of Lost Time