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Jean-Pierre Jeunet – amelie

Mind Movie / 2001 / Romantic Comedy / Set in France / 123 min / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, France / LoadingBookmark

Amelie is a French movie set in Montmartre, Paris, France. Amelie won Best Film at the European Film Awards; it won four César Awards, two BAFTA Awards and was nominated for five…

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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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Bill Conti – gonna fly now

Mind Music / 1977 / Orchestral / 2.48 min / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Mall of the emirates, Dubai, United Arab Emirates / LoadingBookmark

A truly inspirational piece that transcends time possibly because the movie and this song are strongly intertwined. Gonna Fly Now is an original composition by Bill Conti and lyrics…

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John Lennon – mind games

Mind Music / 1973 / Rock, Pop / 4.13 min / Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photograph - Rodin sculpture garden, Rodin Museum, Paris, France / LoadingBookmark

Mind Games was written and performed by John Lennon and is the title track to the album Mind Games. It is Lennon’s fourth album and is the first self-produced album…

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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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Socrates – unexamined life

Mind Quote / Athens, Greece / 470 BC – 399 BC / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Acropolis Athens, Greece / LoadingBookmark

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

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