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Mark Twain – truth & remembering

Mind Quote / Florida, Missouri, Unites States of America / 1835 – 1910 / Photographer - Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Ocean view Kaikoura, New Zealand / LoadingBookmark

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

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Thiruvalluvar – compassion

Mind Quote / Tamil Nadu, India / Before 8 Century / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Cows near mulgas on mountain road Tirano to Lake Garda, Italy / LoadingBookmark

“Those whose minds are filled with compassion will never enter a world dark with woes. No real harm will ever come to anyone who protects all living beings and shows them kindness.”

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Dhammapada – speak or act with a pure thought

Mind Quote / Buddhist Scriptures - 1 century BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Shadows of pure thought, Cronulla, Sydney, Australia / LoadingBookmark

“If we speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows us, like a shadow that never leaves us.”

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Atisa Dipankara Srijnana – meditating mind expand

Mind Quote / Bikrampur, Bengal, Pala Empire / 980 - 1054 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Moon over Lake Garda, Italy / LoadingBookmark

“Let the meditating mind expand, like the face of the waxing moon.”

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Confucius – simple life

Mind Quote / Zou, Lu state, Ancient China / 551 BC – 479 BC / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Moth on fence, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.”

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Gautama Buddha – power of words

Mind Quote / Kapilvastu, Nepal / 563 BC – 483 BC / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Bula at Namale, Fiji / LoadingBookmark

“Words have the power to destroy or heal. When they are both true and kind, they can change the world.”

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Aesop – kindness

Mind Quote / Amorium, Turkey / 620 BC - 564 BC / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Barbary Macaques, Queens Gate, Gibraltar / LoadingBookmark

“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”

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Padmasambhava – worries

Mind Quote / Oddiyana, Classical India / 8 Century / Photographer - Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Sunset, Mt Kosciuszko, Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Let our worries disperse like clouds in a clear blue sky. Like a thief entering an empty house, bad thoughts can do no harm to an empty mind.”

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Aristotle – educated mind

Mind Quote / Chaikidiki, Greece / 384 BC – 322 BC / Photographer - Girolamo Zenari / Photograph - sculpture at Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Olympia, Greece / LoadingBookmark

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

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Dajian Huineng – pure mind

Mind Quote / Guangzhou, China / 638 – 713 / Photographer - Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Sunrise obstruct Uluru, Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Within our impure mind the pure mind is to be found.”

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Galileo Galilei – truths

Mind Quote / Pisa, Italy / 1564 – 1642 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Shadow Tree, Kata Tjuta, Australia / LoadingBookmark

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

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Emperor Justinian I – live honestly

Mind Quote / Tauresium, Macedonia / 482 – 565 / Photographer - Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Appian Way Rome, Italy / LoadingBookmark

“Live honestly, harm no man and render to each his due.”

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