"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of…" — Guy Finley
"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat."
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144 Quotes by Guy Finley
Guy Finley has 144 quotes on this site.
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Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure.…
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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
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Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is…
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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
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What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at…
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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
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Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way…
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Love is effortless attention.
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The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
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No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.
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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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More Breeding Quotes
This quote is filed under Breeding Quotes,
one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like…
— Jean Anouilh
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