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Thoughts and thinking

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

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Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana