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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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Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all th...

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My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the pos...

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At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is...

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. D...

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I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....

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I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ...

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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.

And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is...

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you...

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I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does n...

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And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the li...

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The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should al...

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He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very ...

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Philip PullmanFairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from differen...

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Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, co...

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In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with maje...

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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the pict...

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The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed ...

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Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fas...

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All thought is a feat of association.

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe t...

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The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had dur...

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This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of...

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Becoming sensitive to the background causes of one's thoughts and feelings can—paradoxically—allow f...

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general...

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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in h...

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Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a char...

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Samuel SmilesHappy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

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Sarah DessenSomeone Like You

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and al...

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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-esti...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by ha...

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Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unus...

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His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skul...

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His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God hel...

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Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you a...

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Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight...

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Susan SontagAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks

We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Though...

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Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physi...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot wa...

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Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting ...

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But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wander...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but ...

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Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.