You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better. ~By Dennis Quaid ~
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. ~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. ~By Gerrit Smith ~
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. ~By Ted Shawn ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. ~By George William Curtis ~
Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come. ~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. ~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant. ~By Indra Devi ~
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ~By Robert Hall ~
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. ~By Charles Darwin ~
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion. ~By Mike Schmidt ~
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ~By James Lane Allen ~
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me. ~By Walter Jon Williams ~
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. ~By Walter Bagehot ~
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. ~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. ~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ~By William Shakespeare ~
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ~By Allan Bloom ~
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them. ~By Natasha Richardson ~
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. ~By Voltaire ~
I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking. ~By Jill Clayburgh ~
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. ~By Rod Serling ~
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. ~By William Wiley ~
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~By Maria Monk ~
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. ~By Dee Hock ~
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. ~By Kim Elizabeth ~
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. ~By Alan K. Simpson ~
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ~By Cyril Connolly ~
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go. ~By Ted Nelson ~
The universe is one of God's thoughts. ~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth. ~By Scott Dixon ~
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. ~By William James ~
Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. ~By Eileen Caddy ~
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. ~By Zack Wamp ~
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. ~By Philip Guston ~
Our best thoughts come from others. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Think your own thoughts. ~By Lydia Lunch ~
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ~By James Lane Allen ~
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. ~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great. ~By Jeff Goldblum ~
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials. ~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. ~By James Allen ~
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~By Oscar Wilde ~
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~By Francis Bacon ~
For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ~By Henry Norris Russell ~
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. ~By Joshua Sylvester ~
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ~By Hannah Arendt ~
Beware thoughts that come in the night. ~By William Least Heat Moon ~
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. ~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ~By Alan Cohen ~
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind. ~By Edward Walker ~
And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts. ~By Nazim Hikmet ~
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. ~By Jeremy Renner ~
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished. ~By Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ~
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ~By Robert Musil ~
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. ~By William Godwin ~
If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original. ~By Peter Falk ~
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
Night is the mother of thoughts. ~By John Florio ~
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward. ~By Joichi Ito ~
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. ~By James Allen ~
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. ~By Jean Rostand ~
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. ~By Horace Walpole ~
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ~By Thomas Paine ~
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage. ~By Yahya Jammeh ~
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. ~By Frederick William Faber ~
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. ~By Paul Valery ~
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ~By Laurel Lee ~
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. ~By Paracelsus ~
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. ~By George Washington Carver ~
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. ~By Leon Kass ~
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ~By Maria Mitchell ~
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ~By Robert Collier ~
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. ~By Robert Wyatt ~
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. ~By Jane Fonda ~
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. ~By Steven Wright ~
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts. ~By William Lyon Phelps ~
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage. ~By Joe Rogan ~
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. ~By William Blake ~
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ~By Confucius ~
And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem. ~By Ben Quayle ~
For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings. ~By Otto Frank ~
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. ~By James W. Fulbright ~
Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me. ~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ~By John Maynard Keynes ~
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. ~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past. ~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. ~By Beverly Sills ~
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~By James Joyce ~
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