John Locke

What worries you, masters you.

Topic: Solitude, Thinking
Location: Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

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Motivation Work

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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Education Learning Thinking

Money

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. — John Locke

Happiness Health

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience. — John Locke

Experience Knowledge

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

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Freedom Liberty

Action Thinking

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

› John Locke

Change

Knowledge

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Things are not always what they seem. — Phaedrus

Awareness Perception

Only when I fall do I get up again. — Vincent van Gogh

Adversity Misfortune Perseverance Persistence

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. — Socrates

Awareness Honesty Integrity

You can never have an impact on society if you have not yet changed yourself. — Nelson Mandela

Change Self Society

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain

Friendship Grief Happiness

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. — Thomas Edison

Common Sense Persistence Work

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. — George Washington Carver

Hope Vision

He that forgives gains the victory. — African Proverb

Forgiveness Victory

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. — Socrates

Awareness Wisdom

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I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. — Thomas Jefferson

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Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Diversity of thought is the highest form of freedom. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Confidence is unleashed as soon as you begin to trust your self. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Seek peacefully, you will find. — Egyptian Proverb

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau

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In silence man can most readily preserve integrity. — Meister Eckhart

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. — Mohandas Gandhi

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

› Robert Louis Stevenson

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside can't hurt you. — African Proverb

Confidence Fear Self Self-esteem Solitude

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. — William Shakespeare

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich

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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. — Maya Angelou

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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

› Nikola Tesla

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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with. — Dr. Wayne Dyer

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An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

› Walter Bagehot

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Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

› Thich Nhat Hanh

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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau

Alone Solitude

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

› Buddha

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. — Virginia Woolf

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You must do the thing you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Happiness is a state of mind that only can be gifted by you. People who look toward others to make them happy are miserable. Until you realize that you are responsible for your own happiness, nothing will ever change for the better in your life. Looking outside yourself for happiness is a never ending battle. It is a path to a dead end: a wasteland of emptiness. Make happiness your choice, not dependent on outside of you. Inside you is the only lasting place happiness can ever live. When you make the transition that happiness emanates from within you, your outside circumstances reflect your inner reality. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Happiness Self Self-esteem Thinking

The majority never think beyond what they are told. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

› Horace

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. — Benjamin Disraeli

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The power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir

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Whatever you impress you will express. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

› Epictetus

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

› Mark Twain

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