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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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.

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.

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

Buddha

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Butterworth, Eric

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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