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I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and ge...

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I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your th...

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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our e...

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…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and wo...

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Jack KerouacWindblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you...

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Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

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The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his res...

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stop...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any bo...

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You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you ...

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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single nume...

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The best plans are always the simplest.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...

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It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than ...

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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were de...

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There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years ...

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But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is no...

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Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movemen...

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Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, whe...

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These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the nar...

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Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than ev...

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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them ag...

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Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will d...

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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways...

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but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain o...

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Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that ca...

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

I thought: We are not close enough. I though: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and ...

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am...

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. I...

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I thought: We are not close enough. I thought: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and...

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever ha...

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My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their e...

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wor...

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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almos...

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An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reac...

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It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the major...

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Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be ...

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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little...

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Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost ...

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But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i...

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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I th...

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that k...

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She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themsel...

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Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel bra...

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Kate DiCamilloFlora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

You think I'm prettyWithout any make-up onYou think I'm funnyWhen I tell the puch line wrongI know y...

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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, w...

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It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the...

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Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow."You don't need them. You are learning something ever...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the wor...

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For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your ...

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...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seeme...

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It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than...

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Positive thoughts lead to positive results.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptio...

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It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set o...

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Our real life is not the life we live, and we feel that our deepest, nay, our most intimate thoughts...

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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...

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From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. Sh...

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Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soi...

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No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21s...

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He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property,...

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I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew...

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The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming t...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pu...

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Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your ...

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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of...

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Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest an...

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Napoleon HillOutwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions, constitute a "magnetic" force which a...

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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy...

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