Short Mantra Quotes

#1. Our perceptions take on richness and depth as a result of all the things that we learn. The eye is not a camera that objectively takes a photo of the "world out there." Rather, what the eye sees is determined by what the brain has learned. This suggests a short mantra: learn more, see more.

Richard Restak

#2. I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

Junot Diaz

#3. To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

Rius

#4. There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

Winston Churchill

#5. To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back.

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Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.

William Ritter

#6. The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything ... it amounts to ... a gross violation of human liberty.

Tibor R. Machan

#7. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (8:32)

The Gospel According To John

#8. As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple.

Elisabeth Von Thurn Und Taxis

#9. Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

Eric Greitens