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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for ...

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When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are ...

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One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discove...

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with u...

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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowe...

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The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there a...

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Carrie FisherPostcards from the Edge

Because women never say what they think.

God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance o...

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too." "I'm not so sure of that," he say...

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Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected...

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Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

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She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make...

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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...

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By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage a...

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The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless she...

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In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

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Daniel GolemanEmotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must ...

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The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for ...

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David Allen (author)Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brai...

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Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Dar...

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I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The ...

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Deepak ChopraSuper Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had...

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Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the sp...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mi...

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Edgar Allan PoeThe Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

Keep the body - or keep the mind, and it will keep the body! - in a constructive manner. That is, th...

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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

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Edith HamiltonMythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs...

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Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeli...

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All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hop...

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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...

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The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We crea...

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I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my bodyand life and money and e...

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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thought...

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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we have...

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From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts a...

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Fernando PessoaThe Book of Disquiet

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later...

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One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thou...

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Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow,...

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One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thou...

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One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoug...

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One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and...

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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having o...

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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my t...

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understoo...

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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to surv...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars thr...

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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind...

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Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a t...

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For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what l...

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The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of y...

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I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to in...

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Madame Chantal―a large woman whose ideas always strike me as being square-shaped, like stones dresse...

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Guy de MaupassantA Day in the Country and Other Stories

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

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Guy de MaupassantLe Horla et autres contes fantastiques

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I s...

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If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.

There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,' Eri finally said. 'And one thing always...

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People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to f...

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How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. I...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want...

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The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it i...

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I stayed in the town until early evening, and when the sun began to sink, my heart did too. This is ...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I stayed in the town until earlyevening, and when the sun began to sink, my heart did too. This is y...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I am afraid to die, though,' I whispered to myself. These turned out to be my last words. They were ...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Looking up at [the sky], I think about the October evening world, where 'people' must be going about...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think y...

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In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perf...

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You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are o...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes...

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Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he leteverything enter his mind, birthp...

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When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easilyhappen that the only thing his eyes ...

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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