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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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 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.

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.

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

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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]

Bible

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Arrington, Eva

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Horton, Doug

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bible

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.