I took the TM course when I was in high school and experienced fantastic results with it. Recently I have taken it up again but instead of using the mantra they gave me I repeat the chinese words I want to learn. Yesterday my mantra was “Tiao2li3fen1min2 means organized. Tiao2li3fen1min2 means organized…” Seems to work almost as well as the mantra I was given and I learn my vocab too. I also have a mantra that is more like a little story. It goes like this “I will die someday. When that happens everything will be gone. All of these hopes and fears and memories will mean nothing. Why not release these attachments now. Why not die now. I feel very heavy. In through the nose out through the mouth…” I suppose this sounds scary or depressing but actually it isn’t at all. It allows me to relax completely and I usually fall asleep for half an hour or so and when I wake up it is like Wow! everything is still here! Cool. I then go to work with a much calmer, wider perspective on things.
My dad:
“Never wipe your nose on your sleeve, always use somebody else’s.”
My 10th grade English teacher, Mr. Cornmesser:
“Your perception is your reality.”
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
Me too. There’s a book called The Relaxation Response that tells how to do TM without paying. According to them, your mantra should be one syllable. You can use numbers like one, two, etc.
Sylva Mind Control used a method of counting backward from 3 and visualizing the numbers. That works pretty well too.
But most Chinese words are two syllables.
If you do what you always did , then you’ll get what you always got
moms mabley 
Reminds me of something I used to say along the lines of “It’s better to be pessimistic and get pleasantly surprised than to be optimistic and bitterly disappointed.”
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
(Hanlon’s Razor: jargon.net/jargonfile/h/HanlonsRazor.html)
'guess I’m an optimist 
When shopping:
Sturgeon’s Law: “Ninety percent of everything is crap”
(same source: jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SturgeonsLaw.html)
Always return the stewardess to her original upright position.
today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one
w.s. merwin
think more, work less
richard hislaire
said i’m a living man, i’ve got work to do. if you’re not happy then you must be blue
bob marley
My meditation mantra:
So (inhale) hom (exhale)…with it, one breath can take me one minute to complete.
It’s a matter of trust.
Billy Joel
You can’t trust anyone over 30.
Jack Wienberg, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin et al
Never trust anybody under 50.
Abbie Hoffman, on the occassion of his 50th birthday
Don’t trust anyone over 30 who used to say “Don’t trust anyone over 30.”
Ano Nymous
Never trust your memory for quotes.
http://www.ralphkeyes.com/pages/books/niceguys/excerpt.htm
Never trust the Internet.
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
quoted by Marvin Gaye
Never trust anybody who says “Trust me.”
and finally,
Never trust anybody.
Steve Zodiac
Mantra for those who ride motorbikes and scooters in Taiwan traffic
This is a good day to die!
Klingon Battle Cry
Never trust a hippy - Malcolm McLaren
Of course, strictly speaking, Abbie Hoffman et al were
not “hippies.”
They were, in the parlance of the day, yippies.
These, of course, are not to be confused with the
1980s-era yuppies, which were the very
antithesis of the hippies and yippies.
[u]And for all of you under 30:[/u]
Hippie (American Heritage Dictionary:)
[i]A person who opposes and rejects many of the
conventional standards and customs of society,
especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in
sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.[/i]
HIPPIE (acronym finder)
[i]Helper In Promoting Peaceful Individual
Existence[/i] 
Yippie (American Heritage Dictionary:)
[i]A member of a group of politically radical
hippies, active especially during the late 1960s.[/i]
Yuppie (American Heritage Dictionary:)
[i]A young city or suburban resident with a well-paid
professional job and an affluent lifestyle.[/i]
YUPPIE (acronym finder)
[i]Young Urban Professional[/i]
[u]And for those of you who post regularly:[/u]
Never trust your spell checker!
I’m on the drug. I’m on the drug, I’m on the drug that killed River Phoenix.