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Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse… — John O'Donohue
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to… — Gary Zukav
I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling… — Withered Hand
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. — Eric Kandel
To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in… — Karl Ove Knausgard
Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think. — Karl G. Maeser
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but… — Robert Dallek
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would… — Robert Gottlieb
At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother. — Jenny Mollen
My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in show business. Never… — Joan Rivers
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state,… — Dustin Moskovitz
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other.… — Jules Verne
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different… — Harry Lloyd
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is… — Ma Jian
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in… — John Wesley Powell
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. — Frederic Chopin
The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me. — John Updike

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