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Topic·Mindfulness✕clear

The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings." That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and superficial.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to give it true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.

Albert Schweitzer

1933

★ 2.5

Scientific literature

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle-they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

Alfred North Whitehead

An Introduction to Mathematics · 1911

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 3.6

Speech · Commencement address

The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master.

David Foster Wallace

2005 Kenyon College commencement address · 2005

★ 3.7

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1973

★ 5.3

Satire · Travel writing

Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent as when they are at stool.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 5.5

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