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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Think then act safely.

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Italian

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horton, Doug

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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