By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“I’ll call you a thoughtful critic if you agree to call me a fascinating blogger.” — Venkatesh G. Rao Copy Share Image
“With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?” — Matt Drabble Copy Share Image
“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it. — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“something that’s so thoughtful on the outside you say, ‘Oh, wow, it must be really thoughtful” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“Never before had I raced in an angry mood and I couldn't believe how powerful it was. Now I understood why Lance… — David Millar Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate… — Tom Kimmel Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems… — Wilfrid Sellars Copy Share Image
Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also… — Dave Calhoun Copy Share Image
Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach… — David "Doc" Searls Copy Share Image
My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I… — Harry West Copy Share Image
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“We go through so much trauma in this world. At least we get to die.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people. — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image