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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Maharshi, Ramana

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Frost, Robert

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Pascal, Blaise

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

May, Louise

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig