Lars Toomre

Some Personal Thoughts, Observations and Trivia

Mind

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Be Who You Are

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Beloved creator of the Dr. Seuss books

Robert Collier on Subconscious Mind

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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives... Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

American author (1885-1950)

Fay Weldon on Subconscious Mind

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application — practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

English author, essayist and playwright

The Dalai Lama on Attitude

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It is therefore important that human intelligence be utilized in a constructive way. That is the key. If we utilize its capacity properly, then not only human beings would become less harmful to each other, and to the planet, but also individual human beings would be happier in themselves. It is in our hands. Whether we utilize our intelligence in the right way or the wrong way is up to us. Nobody can impose their values on us. How can we learn to use our capacity constructively? First, we need to recognize our nature and then, if we have the determination, there is a real possibility of transforming the human heart.

On this basis, I will speak on how a human being can find happiness as an individual, because I believe that the individual is the key to all the rest. For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual. If the individual can become a good, calm, peaceful person, this automatically brings a positive atmosphere to the family around him or her. When parents are warm-hearted, peaceful and calm people, generally speaking their children will also develop that attitude and behavior.

Alive and Living Life Out Loud

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Aliveness is energy. It's the juice, the vitality, and the passion that wakes up our cells every morning. It's what makes us want to dance. It's the energy that moves a relationship from the status quo to something grander and much more expansive, something that makes our hearts beat faster, our minds, and our eyes open wider than ever before. Everything is of interest to a person who is truly alive, whether it's a challenge, a loving moment, a bucket of grief, or a glimpse of beauty.

From her book The Future of Love (1999), page 164

Earl Nightingale on Subconscious Mind

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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Motivational speaker and best-selling author

Whatever The Mind Can Conceive and Believe

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Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.

American personal-success author, famous for book Think and Grow Rich (1883-1970)

Kahlil Gibran on Life and Attitude

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Artist, writer and poet, best known for his book "The Prophet"

Charles Colton on The Mind and Happiness

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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities (1780–1832)

Sigmund Freud on Subconscious Mind

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

The Company His Mind Keeps

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

American poet, novelist, traveler and editor (1836-1907)

Treating Employees As Volunteers

Production capability work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best part — their hearts and minds.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Expose Yourself To Great Minds

It is extremely valuable to train the mind to stand apart and examine its own program. That, to me, is the definition of a liberal education — the ability to examine the programs of life against larger questions and purposes and other paradigms. Training, without such education, narrows and closes the mind so that the assumptions underlying the training are never examined. That's why it is so valuable to read broadly and to expose yourself to great minds.