the mantra QUOTES

1 " SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on " screw children" , and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us. "

2 " Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun. Children may be innately motivated to make friends, acquire status, hone motor skills, and explore the physical world, but they are not necessarily motivated to adapt their cognitive faculties to unnatural tasks like formal mathematics. A family, peer group, and culture that ascribe high status to school achievement may be needed to give a child the motive to persevere toward effortful feats of learning whose rewards are apparent only over the long term. "

― Steven Pinker , The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

3 " Be it a 'slide' in a children’s park, or one in the play-fields of life; the mantra is same. “You climb up and you slide down.”
What is missing in the later years is the enthusiasm with which the kids run up the steps, knowing fully well that another down-slide is imminent.
Life is a game; play it with gay abundance. Take a leaf out of the kid’s rule-book… "

― Anurag Shourie

4 " It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release. "

― Michael Gira

5 " The key to happy living is that Mind should be at rest and body must be exercised and active, but in the disillusioned pursuit of happiness during current times we reverse the mantra and ignorantly fly away from it. "

― Hiyamedia

6 " In the mantra of shared hatred and placing the blame on Israel, our cowardice to face the barbarity of our heads of states was replaced with a divine purpose. Contemplating the manifestation of the eradication of hatred I often concluded, the entirety of the Middle East’s theocracies and dictatorships would be replaced by total anarchy. We would be left with nothing, as our brotherhood of hatred was the only bond known to us. Enculturated in the malarkey of that demagoguery, forces beyond our control and comprehension seem to deceive us into a less harmful and satisfactory logic as opposed to placing some blame on ourselves and thus, having to act to reverse that state of affairs. "

― , An Ishmael of Syria

7 " After a time, he felt a deeper rhythm, the rhythm of the stone and water, not the rhythm of his words and heartbeat. He breathed into this deeper rhythm, let it teach him a new mantra, a wordless mantra that waxed and waned, ebbed and flowed, moon and stars and clouds, river and sun, the wordless singing of the earth beneath it all like the world's own heartbeat. He laid his palms flat on the stone beneath him and listened in quiet rapture to the mantra of the world's praying. "

― Katherine Addison , The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)

8 " I love how the landscape gives the impression of vast space and intimacy at the same time: the thin brown line of a path wandering up an immense green mountainside, a plush hanging valley tucked between two steep hillsides, a village of three houses surrounded by dark forest, paddy fields flowing around an outcrop of rock, a white temple gleaming on a shadowy ridge. The human habitations nestle into the landscape; nothing is cut or cleared beyond what is requires. Nothing is bigger than necessary. Every sign of human settlement repeat the mantra of contentment: “This is just enough. "

― Jamie Zeppa

9 " One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra " I am not the body and I am not the mind" . "

10 " That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same. "

― Matthew Quick , Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

11 " Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become. "

― Dashama Konah Gordon , Journey to Joyful: Transform Your Life with Pranashama Yoga

12 " Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages.
“Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?” he said.
And Ridcully responded with the traditional response.
“It’s got to be worth a try,” he said. "

― Terry Pratchett , Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)

13 " Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: " Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. " And then Opal will be loved." And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead. "

14 " For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change. "