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Thoughts and thinking

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

- Chopra, Deepak

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

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

Taylor, Susan

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Fredrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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 are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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A man's what he thinks about all day long